Every year, as soon as the leaves start changing colors along the quiet street of my New England town, I am immediately reminded of one of my favorite ’90s childhood memories: Halloween. It was the highlight of every autumn, a night of uncomplicated, untethered, old-fashioned fun. It’s the kind of fun I wish for my...
Courtney Hale/E+/Getty Images If you have a picky eater, you’ve probably gone through the five stages of grief at the dinner table at least once a week. You start in denial (today is totally the day they will get over their fear of ricotta cheese and eat a ravioli) and inevitably end at a state...
I look forward to fall every year for many reasons, and fall TV is definitely one of them. I always make little mental bookmarks of the new shows I want to watch, this year adding a tab early for NBC’s new drama Brilliant Minds. It checks a lot of “interests” boxes for me: It’s a...
Betches / TikTok There is something generally mortifying about that moment when your kid opens a gift from a relative, only to have them say, “I already have this!” or worse, NOTHING. They just open it, give zero reaction, and then move on to their next gift. I’ve been mortified a time or two when...