Updates have been scarce here, I know. The kids are back in school, which means I’ve been running pretty much nonstop from 6:30 AM on. Homework, permission slips, back-to-school events, and policing those shiny new bedtimes is exhausting, but we seem to be getting back into a pretty good routine. I’ve been busy writing, too:

I wrote the feature story–Family Affairs–for the current issue of Brain, Child. Can I pause here and say how happy I am to still be writing for Brain, Child? They were the very first magazine that ever published my work–a huge confidence booster that fueled my career in no small way back in 2002. I’m happy to report the magazine is as compelling as it ever was. I’m heading over to subscribe right now; I hope you’ll do the same.

Check in with me at the Mott’s More To The Core blog, where I’ll be posting about family day trips and outings for the next couple months.

Over at The Happiest Mom, I wrote about my conventional life

And introducing a new project, Lake Michigan Family , where I’ll be writing about the region I live in–Southwest Michigan–and other places along the Lake Michigan shoreline.