William Lucas Walker

Every young girl should have a fairy godmother. Mine does. Her name is Miss Coco Peru.

Just how does one go about locating a fairy godmother? It's best if they appear at your daughter's crib when she's quite young, wag a finger and say, "I wanna be her fairy...

There's a world
where I can go
and tell my secrets to
In my room
In my room...

The haunting Beach Boys classic springs to mind because that's where I find myself as I'm writing this: in my childhood bedroom.

The same...

I never thought when I started building my kids a treehouse that it would turn into a competition. A competition inside my mind -- the worst kind. What follows is the sad story of how two hot daddies got under my bark.

hot daddy /hät 'da-dē/ adjective + noun: the...

Not too long ago, our little clan took a road trip from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. Road trips are one of those mysterious things families feel compelled to do but no one knows why, like camping in the Mojave Desert or supporting the career of Miley Cyrus. I predict...

It's 8:30. Baths are done, the kids' teeth have been brushed for the mandated seven seconds, and it's time for bed. Which for my 6-year-old, still means a story.

Only my son is tired of the old standbys. We've exhausted Hans Christian Anderson, and I'm avoiding Pinocchio. James is...

I'm six. My mom and I are in the front seat of her very smart 1962 Chevrolet station wagon when she turns to me and asks:

"Have you thought about what you might like to be when you grow up?"

Well, I have been thinking about it. Last night...

Our son was three years old when Prop 8 passed, too young to understand what was going on but just the right age to articulate his thoughts about those yellow "Yes on 8" signs he saw everywhere. They were, he announced, "the color of pee-pee."

On some level, he...