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'You better not let your mom hear you saying that.' Translation: I'm too tired to discipline you for a small infraction like a cuss word, especially since you probably learned that w

Did you ever notice that every utterance that comes out of a child's mouth ends with either a question mark or an exclamation point?

The Good Book for women to live by! The creator of Boyfriend-in-a-Box is back with a book that lays down the law, chapter and verse, for female relationships. Friendship between women is sacred.

Who else but a mother would drive at breakneck speed, ignoring traffic signs and risking her "preferred driver" status, just to make it to a soccer match on time?

'Is that what you're going to wear?' Used indiscriminately for sons, daughters, and husbands, this one is a not-so-subtle attempt to make family members rethink their wardrobe choice

Rule number one in the parenting handbook: "Keep 'em off guard." Then along comes Cathy Hamilton (a 40-something mother of two, by the way) who blows the whole cover for motherdom.

Rule number one in the parenting handbook: "Keep 'em off guard." Then along comes Cathy Hamilton (a 40-something mother of two, by the way) who blows the whole cover for fatherdom.

Who else but a father would persist, all afternoon, in trying to get a stubborn kite to achieve lift-off, even long after the kids have gone inside to watch T.V.?

I Love You More than Beer: And 99 Other Declarations of a Guy's Adoration is the sincere but manly way for a guy to express his love! And it's in the shape of a beer can!

The "Good Book" for women to live by! The creator of Boyfriend-in-a-Box is back with a book that lays down the law, chapter and verse, for female relationships.

Menopause means . . . breaking down in sobs at the checkout counter when you realize you love Costco more than your husband." — Menopause Means . . .

Cathy Hamilton calls them exactly as she sees them. Sometimes she's sharp, sometimes she cuts close to the bone, but always she's flat-out funny and insightful.

Faster than a sudden mood swing, more powerful than +3.0 reading glasses, able to sleep five hours in a single night! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane . . .

Passionate environmentalist, old-time hippy Lucky Smith and Paul Keller, Chief Constable of Trafalgar, British Columbia, are an unlikely couple.

It’s the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers.