Everything I know about parenting I learned from "Dancing with the Stars"
Pop culture parenting is so hard. One minute you think you're in step and the next thing you know, all of your television-inspired parenting techniques are so last week. Oh well, cha cha cha. Today's in-the-know parents? They're taking their...

Please, do not even think of trying to compete with the Midwest for appalling regional delicacies*
Then again, this has got to be better than it sounds. *Locution by SK reader Sue, who argued here, that hamballs to the contrary, the Midwest has plenty of competition. To which I can only say, slider stuffing? The envelope...

In Which Eeyore is Slandered by Corporate Sloganeering and We are All Arranged by Color
They do not tolerate workplace gossip at Livingston, Mont.-based PrintingForLess.com. Which is a good thing, because if they did, somebody would certainly say something hurtful about whoever came up with the system for color-coding employees by their preferred style of...

Please accept this adorable kitten as a token of my regret
The sixth-grader and her friend sneak up on me just as I am putting the finishing touches on an e-mail reply that goes like this: Expletive deleted. I wasn't going to send it. Or maybe I was. I hadn't decided....

Study: 30 percent of fall leaves end up in house