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March 22, 2007 - Psst, come here, I've got 'The Secret': Like most women around the country _ and the world _ I do whatever Oprah tells me to do. When Oprah says, "Jump," I say "How high? What time? In which direction? How long should I stay up?
March 08, 2007 - A season for feeling right at home: A year has passed since the Buchinger family left Florida, rolled into America's Most Perfect Village and unpacked our bags to stay. What a year it has been.
March 01, 2007 - Boy, my classmates are getting older: Maybe it's just a melancholy fact of life that, after a certain age, unexpected correspondence from old high school friends makes a person jump to the conclusion that someone must have died.
February 22, 2007 - If she's a Princess, that makes me Queen: My 3-year-old daughter Bee emerged from her room holding a plastic storage container the size of a shoebox. She held it carefully, respectfully, with two hands.
February 15, 2007 - We plowed through our first Nor'easter: The day before Nor'easter 07 (cue dramatic Weather Channel-style music), Posey and I were on Main Street running errands. Posey is going through a serious charming phase right now. She has mastered the word "Hi," and she uses it liberally.
February 8, 2007 - An open letter to The Man about my van: Dear Sir(s?), Do not for one minute think this means you have won.
February 1, 2007 - As most sleep, some of us are pacing: A hospital is no place to try to get some rest. Not for a person who is sick or recovering from sickness. And, I'm finding out, not for the mother of someone who is recovering.
January 25, 2007 - 200 words for snow isn't enough: If it were true that the indigenous people of Alaska had 200 distinct words for snow, then they just weren't trying hard enough. As I have begun to learn my way around snow, it seems 200 is merely a good start.
January 18, 2007 - Time to walk around the track: My cousin called during dinner, and I dropped everything to talk to her. We talked about kids, working motherhood, the weather.
January 11, 2007 - There's nothing like snuggling: This motherhood gig would be a walk in the park if it weren't for one little thing. No, I'm not talking about the kids _ I'm talking about bedtime.
January 04, 2007 - And thus, I break my first resolution: On Sunday night, I resolved that I would not do what so many others do this time of year and write a column about New Year's resolutions.
December 28, 2006 - Christmas in China: A beautiful sight: In the Southern Chinese city Guangzhou, a couple hours from Hong Kong by train, there is a small island in the Pearl River called Shamian.
November 24, 2006 - It's almost time to meet her: Funny how a person can wait so long for something, and yet be so totally unprepared when it happens.
November 16, 2006 - Objects in the rearview mirror... Please don't let me be misunderstood, again. Recently, I did something I swore I would never do again: I got a real job. If you haven't tried this working thing, you really should. The fun never ends.
November 09, 2006 - The rites, and wrongs, of passage: There are things in life more distressing than celebrating your son's 18th birthday. Sure there are. Um. Aren't there? Let's see.
November 02, 2006 - So you think you've got me pegged: Dear Candidates, Campaign Managers, Political Analysts, Beltway Insiders, Capital Correspondents, and Sundry Media Types, If it's not too much trouble, could you maybe just this once give me a little more credit? I know, I know.
October 26, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: When I was a small child, I had this horrific notion that haunted me every night at bedtime.
October 19, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: It was the middle of fifth grade and I was the new girl. I was the shy new girl. I was the shy new girl who waited for two hours after school one afternoon for someone to pick her up, growing more certain with every passing second that the world had turned into a cold and hostile place, especially for fifth grade girls.
October 12, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: Of all the things that famously set us humans apart from the other subjects in the animal kingdom (thumbs, clothing, luxury sedans), maybe nothing sets us farther apart than our ability to observe the fact that we are set apart in the first place.
October 05, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: In graf that starts Mom can you make ... the words "in a pan" should be in italics.
September 28, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: It is widely believed that television is bad for you. It sucks your time like a giant mental Dyson. It hypnotizes and anesthetizes.
September 14, 2006 - Summer's last days, wisely spent: No one likes for summer to end. When heather gives way to goldenrod, we know - achoo, achoo - that summer is in its twilight. Days are getting just a sliver shorter.
September 7, 2006 - Why are they asking me?: Do the media ask too many questions? Don't journalists write in declarative statements anymore?
August 31, 2006 - 15 years of life, love and dumb luck: We were best friends. We met the first day of college almost 19 years ago - survey of Western philosophy.
August 24, 2006 - My children are this many: Having two children 14.5 years apart teaches a person a lot about children. But it may teach a parent even more about other parents.
August 17, 2006 - Out here, we watch out for each other: Watch out for deer. Until we moved here to the New York countryside, no one had ever bid us goodbye with that particular warning.
August 10, 2006 - One week worth every February night: Now this is more like it. As I am writing, I am sitting on my little deck as the late afternoon sun dapples the hilltop behind the house and paints broad, golden swaths across my lawn.
August 3, 2006 - Brilliant idea: In retrospect, maybe bringing a spirited, outspoken 3-year-old to the ballet wasn't the most brilliant idea I've ever had.
July 27, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: When I was six or seven, I wished two things: 1. That Shaun Cassidy would find me and marry me when I grew up, and 2. That I had a twin sister.
July 20, 2006 - &%#!!, is this thing on?: Know what, kids? Swearing is fun! Sure it is. And everyone does it - even well-groomed, powerful members of the G8.
July 13, 2006 - The patriarchy is just jealous: I'm not the kind of person who finds conspiracy lurking under every rock and behind every social ill.
July 6, 2006 - Skies fall, rivers rise, hearts open: Soooooo... How 'bout that rain? Some of you may remember that, in last week's column, I managed to take the credit - er, blame for the devastation that was the Flood of 2006. I take it back.
June 29, 2006 - We are all soaked, and all apologies: First, let me apologize to everyone in the Northeast, especially everyone in Central New York. The rain? I'm afraid it's our fault.
June 23, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: Yoga and I have a complicated relationship. The simple version is that it's one of those love/hate things. I love the idea of it - a physical discipline that commingles with mental and spiritual discipline as well.
June 15, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: The woman looked to be in her 30s - about my age. I saw her across the store browsing through the gourmet foods. She was shopping with friends.
June 8, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: It's easy to love this place. It's easy to fall IN love with it - to fall so hopelessly in love that you want to kiss it square on the mouth and write your name next to its name on the door of the third stall in the girl's bathroom.
June 1, 2006 - E. T. Buchinger: They told me New York was a springtime paradise. They told me New York was cool and comfortable. They told me not to plant anything before Memorial Day because it would be too cold.
May 25, 2006 - This anniversary is better than any birthday: Two years ago, my husband and I said, "I do." It wasn't our wedding day. That happened almost 15 years ago. Those 15 years have taught me an awful lot about the cover-all-bases wisdom of the traditional wedding vows.
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