You know I love an occasion to plan a celebration, especially when it's a personal milestone event. Happily, I got to serve up a soirée last summer in honor of Christian and Jamie's high school graduation. It felt so exciting to not only have the freedom to plan an event ...

You only turn fifty once, and back in March it was time for my hubby to step up to the plate and punch his ticket to the BIG 5-0! He was a little ambivalent about the whole deal, and the state of the union at the time didn't exactly allow ...

The timing is perfect for my second "interview" in a series about women I admire. "Tis the season of giving, and Dawnielle Chaney is the gift that keeps on giving. A friend to all and advisor to many, she is not only hilarious and smart but talented and charitable. Whenever ...

For all the divorced parents out there, you intimately know the pain of being separated from your kids at the holidays. It's that first Thanksgiving or Christmas as an awkwardly configured new family, in which old traditions are ripped away, and fresh attempts at merry and bright seem, well, sad. ...