I’ve been on a whirlwind this past month: Christmas, family visits, an international adoption, and emotional stress with our oldest child, AJ. Our new son, Gus, is thankfully very healthy despite an ear infection and two new molars that have been keeping him up at night.
I have been exhausted from travel and interrupted sleep, suffering from headaches and my own ear infection, and have done, in my opinion, nothing but laundry, change diapers, and feed Gus since returning home. Not that I’m complaining or anything…
But Friday morning I hit a wall. After two school snow days AJ had another day …read more

I was hooked on the Closer from the first episode, not because Kyra Sedgewick is married to Kevin Bacon or anything but because the show is, and has always been about a strong woman. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is the boss. She’s not the partner or the assistant. She’s the boss.
She’s feisty, fallible, ambitious, a little too aggressive, and totally commitment phobic. But, she is a strong, driven woman.
TV needed her.
Young girls needed to see a woman like her in action.
TNT gave me the unique opportunity to see the first two winter episodes (only five will air between January and …read more