Last year Erin sent a kid to college, and this year Ellen is sending one. True to our dog and cat personalities, we handled the experience of launching a chick from the nest very differently. Check out our latest podcast to hear us talk about our different responses to this big change in our families. […]

If you have a kid who is going to be using technology this year, you want to listen to this podcast. We are talking about technology and tweens and teens as well as some of the pitfalls and pluses you can expect. Some things we include in this podcast: Erin talks about her past as […]

Is the art of talking politics with friends lost? Check out these opinions!Click To Tweet In this election year, the art of talking politics, policies, plans, and ideologies seems to be on life support. Name-calling and mudslinging are the opening volleys to “discussions” that are frequently ended with broad brushstrokes like “All Republicans/Democrats are insert-your-go-to-insult-here.” […]

We took a little break from podcasting but we are back and ready to talk. Because our conversations in our podcasts flow right from our actual talks, we know this is a real question out there. To catch you up: some teens at the snack bar addressed Ellen by first name. Some hackles were raised. Some were not. And […]

Recently we came across an article that launched a conversation for us. This post on Huffington Post explained why the author was choosing her kids over her husband. Really? We felt like we have read this argument before. Whether the mom chooses her kids or her husband or the dog or even her best friend, unless she […]

Do you feel like the holidays are one raging whitewater current sweeping you up in October and dumping you onto the barren shore just south of New Year’s Eve? Or is it north of? Either way . . . US TOO! Picture us yelling that at you with a Charlie Brown style force sufficient to […]