Courtenay Harris Bond

I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...

My oldest daughter, the only one of our three children with a sophisticated palate, rarely gets to sample the diversity of dishes she was ...

My mood was almost festive – we would have no childcare responsibilities for the next three days and be alone together for the firs ...

Finally released from the captivity of school, our children have resorted to one of their fav ...

One of the ways that children render their existence tolerable to their parents — giving us the stamina to endure their fiery outbursts ...

I am up at 3 a.m., looking at our rain-slick deck and wondering why I cannot sleep, a fairly frequent occurrence in my middle age when wo ...

I used to fantasize about investigating heroin epidemics and sex-trafficking rings. Instead I am writing about toilet training and tantru ...

“What’s a spring fever?” my 5-year-old daughter recently asked as she contemplated our backyard Magnolia tree that was ...

Seized by a fit of holiday consumerism last Saturday, I made a trip to the Ardmore City Sports, whose liquidation signs had been inspirin ...

Trying to lure in enough neighbors to make an adult dance class take off, a friend recently circulated an email invitation for “Fun ...

I drove back and forth to the Wynnewood Giant three times over the course of two days, piling water bottles and juice boxes, bags of pret ...

I remember when I was pregnant with our twins, now 8, several years before our third child was even a possibility, and a friend told me t ...