Dan Bucatinsky

It's the Sunday before Memorial Day. Don's home while Jonah naps, thank God, so I'm taking Eliza to buy groceries at Trader Joe's. She loves Trader Joe's because the guys there always give her a balloon. Eliza has an odd little obsession with balloons. She sees one and has to...

Before my husband and I ever talked about having kids, I always found it irritating and condescending when people used to say "everything changes when you have kids." And then we had kids. And then I was irritated all over again at how true it turned out to be.

I...

"Five, six... five, six, seven, eight!" I sing out to my 7- and 4-year-olds as Lady Gaga starts to sing. This is their cue to start the dance number we've been rehearsing for three days. It's their Papi's (my husband Don's) birthday, and the kids want to do a dance...

It was Thomas Jefferson who, in 1802, first spoke of "building a wall of separation between church and state," and in 1947 the Supreme Court case Everson v. Board of Education firmly established this wall separating Church and State.

Cut to 2011. In response to existing discriminatory laws restricting the...

I looked down at this bag of gummy worms that my kids were begging me to buy. I tried to read the ingredients. I don't know why I bothered. I mean, I knew what was in them, but still, I wanted to see what else was in there besides the...

For Don Roos, on Oct. 23, 2011, our 19th anniversary.

In 1779 Thomas Jefferson proposed a law to the Virginia State Assembly that would mandate castration for gay men and mutilation of nose cartilage for gay women. That's right: nose cartilage. And Jefferson was considered a liberal! Was...

What did we do before YouTube? I remember the day I was sitting in my office, avoiding writing, as is my job... when I received my first email linking me to a video on the site. It was one of the early ones -- some hilarious moment of a kid...