Blankets are nice, outfits are fun and stuffed animals are cute, but the best kinds of gifts for us new parents are the practical ones.
Granted, practical gifts usually are pretty boring. They’re not the kinds of stuff that makes grandmas and grandpas (or doting friends, for that matter) giddy with excitement. They’re not the [...]

Movie fans likely remember the 2006 cult classic film, “Snakes on a Plane.” As the title suggests, the protagonists (my former “E.R.” heartthrob Julianna Margulies among them) wind up on a plane infested with snakes.
During our recent vacation to Hawaii on Alaska Airlines, I feel like we could have been extras on the set of [...]

It’s no secret that diapers are up there with plutonium as some of the least environmentally friendly objects on Planet Earth.
As quoted in a recent TIME magazine article, the Real Diaper Association, an advocacy group founded in 2004, estimates that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the U.S. According to the EPA, [...]