Selective Silence: An Experiment in Connection

Ever wonder what it would be like to not speak to your spouse – when you’re not at mad at him/her? Our newest contributor finds out.

Fro-tastic Date Night at Cocomero

Cocomero really is the perfect dessert location for date night. No matter how much you’ve consumed at dinner, you don’t have to worry that you don’t have any room for dessert.

Date Night: Not Necessarily Valentine’s Day

I was looking for something different leading up to Valentine’s Day this year. It’s been a rough one so far, with periods of intense family illness and more than the usual stressors at work and home. The idea of sitting in the dark under Staerkel’s enormous aluminum dome, immersed in light and sound, appealed to me.

Coping When One Parent Travels

There’s nothing quite like a business trip to upset the delicate balance of a family’s ecosystem, but there are ways to cope when mom or dad leaves the family behind for a few days.

Mom to Mom: First And Lasting Love

Nine years later I can say that the love that I have for Ben, my husband, is quite different from the love I felt so many years ago. I think that the loss of anyone’s first love is heartbreaking, but the more I mourned it, I realized that I was grieving the loss of my innocence and the romantic ideas that I had about life.

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