A month or two ago, on the beach So, it's been fifteen years since I married this guy. That seems at the same time, very reasonable an...

 One of the casualties of pandemic life at la casa Bryant has been date nights. As people who have never been married without children (I al...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the  In...

I lean towards optimism in most circumstances, trusting that time and energy spent can improve most situations. At least I believe that no...

It's April and you know what that means:  The AtoZ Blogging Challenge ! For those who haven't played along before, the AtoZ Bloggi...

It's almost Valentine's day, so romance is in the air. I'm trying to avoid the chocolate this year, so I'll focus on the lov...

Gender and societal roles is an integral part of Going Through the Change,  nowhere more obviously than in the marriage of Linda Alvar...

I've got a crush on Linda Alvarez (Luckily for my husband, she's fictional). I'm in good company. More than one of the othe...

Family, in one sense or another, is one of the most important aspects of human life. Whether we mean our parents, our children, our sig...

https://spsnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/chanukah1.jpg I married a nice Catholic boy a few years ago. As we approached our first ...

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Continuing my Christmas story. You can read the first three parts here: Part One : In which Gillian and her sons get stranded on the way t...

Last Christmas, I started a Christmas story. I never finished it. I'm hoping to finish it this month. Part 1:  Gillian was traveling f...

As I always tell my students, No hablo deportes. (I don't speak sports). In general, my policy on sports is that if my daughters are n...