Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Teenagers who want to scoop ice cream or sell clothing from their favorite store this summer may have a harder time than usual landing a job. This article in the NY Times says that little more than one-third of the 16- to 19-year-olds in the United States are likely to be employed […]

by Stacey
Poor Matt Damon. Look at him longing to be a famous Red Sox player instead of a famous movie star. According to Babble.com who read it in the Boston Herald, Damon was asked what he would say if his one-year old daughter Isabella grew up and decided to cheer for a different team. “You […]

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was fun. On Friday evening, my husband took Sage to a Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox game. Sage is supposed to love the Red Sox since they’re his dad’s favorite team, but ever since he met the Mariner Moose earlier this summer, he’s been a […]

by Stacey
One of my fondest summer vacation memories with my husband is from a trip we took to Seattle from DC the day after we got engaged. (Little did we know then we’d be moving to this beautiful city a few years later.) At the time, we were flush with our new decision to spend […]

[photo: Celebs and Bubs]
by Stacey
Now that the Tour de France is in full swing, it’s impossible not to think about Lance Armstrong, the man who won a record seven times in a row from 1999 to 2005. If you know anything about bike racing, which I didn’t until I met my husband, you’d know this […]

by Stacey
“Sudden Death from Collapsing Sand Holes” is the title of a letter to the editor in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine. According to the letter, the authors found “52 documented fatal and nonfatal cases, occurring primarily in the past 10 years, in which persons were submerged after the collapse of a dry-sand […]