
Preparedness is Key
With everything going on in the news this week, we might as well come right out and discuss what we’re all thinking about anyway: the

With everything going on in the news this week, we might as well come right out and discuss what we’re all thinking about anyway: the

Dear Pious Petunia: How do I cope?
Miss P: I’ve been receiving many letters of late whose plaintive pleas boil down to that very question.

INT. KIDS THESE DAYS CAFÉ, HEAVEN – ETERNAL DAY
Small clusters of saints in white robes, vaguely glowing, chatter convivially around heavy wood tables in

Then we realized, as we hiked deeper in, that caterpillars were everywhere. On the leaves, on the trail, even hanging over the trail from little

Spring favors those in the springtime of life. Or does it? Today, guest columnist Pious Petunia features letters from younger correspondents and offers gentle wisdom

If the joy of Christmas ever breaks through the frenzy of event-going and present-wrangling and (for me) end-of-semester grading, it happens through music. This year,

Advice columnist Pious Petunia returns as a guest blogger to face her biggest challenge yet. What wisdom can Miss P offer for the horror that

SIMI VALLEY, CA — “We have no firm explanation at this time.”
That was as much as Patricia Drake, spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Foundation

We have arrived at that late-summer turning point when we take stock of what we have or have not accomplished since Memorial Day, back when

Next week I send my highschooler to jazz camp, the first of three different music camps he’ll be attending this summer. When I was growing