"Don't make fun of your mother. It's a sin against your soul." -My mom. I don't call my mom as much as I should. Tim...

"Never rat on your friends. And always keep your mouth shut." -  Goodfellas. Young "Hendry" gets pinched and learns ...

Christmas Day will always be Just as long as we have we

Crab cakes with dip, shrimp salad, scungilli salad, stuffed mushrooms Christmas Eve is the big tradition in our family. It's more i...

There is a song that I have to hear to officially mark the beginning of Christmas season. Our tree may be up, our halls may be decked, our p...

We take pride in our annual Christmas card. It's one of our favorite, if not our favorite, non-traditional traditions. We are not the ki...

A long time ago, even before My Director was around, I started a collection. This collection has turned into somewhat of a tradition. ...

We've managed to return to normal here in the DKL house, here in the DKL town, post-Sandy. It happened a while ago, actually. Normal, of...

Today I am pleased to feature a wonderfully talented writer and blogger. "Dumbsaint," as I will call her because s...

Eventually, there will be healing, but the scars will remain. The broken will be torn down, rebuilt, replaced. When the new rises, we will n...

I plan on making the most of this Thanksgiving. It's the one holiday where there really isn't all that much stress. No costumes. ...

“It isn’t the size of the family, it’s the interactions of the members inside." Michele Borba A friend of mine posted a picture on Fa...

This week I bring you a special edition of #PayItForward. A guest post from one of my favorite bloggers. Bill, who writes a blog called I ...

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." -Bernard Baruch What's the big idea? (This guy was ...

Some of my most vivid, vibrant, and most cherished memories of childhood are of the six of us - mom, dad, my two sisters, my brother, and me...

The song leaked from the backseat like the creak of a loose floorboard on the steps of my childhood home. Familiar but eerie. Comfortable, y...

There may be no better way to immortalize a person than to have their child draw a picture of them. Marble sculpture? Bronze bust? Oil paint...

What do you say to a man who has no idea what he means to you? What do you say to a man who means the world to you? There is a man who is ...

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~Confucius Turns out, you can go home again. And in doing so, you can introduce your...

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns I'm an ideas guy. It's ...