Helene Hirsch Wingens

Let’s face it Facebook birthdays can be fun but they can also be confusing to decipher, so here’s a little help getting through the quagmire of Facebook birthday messages. There are no fewer than five categories of birthday greetings/greeters on Facebook. The first birthday salutation, which I call the “bare basics birthday greeting”, is the …

Helene Hirsch Wingens looks back on the good, the bad, and – mostly – the ugly of raising three small children. Read more from Helene on her blog.  I’m a huge fan of Anna Quindlen’s writing. I recently stumbled upon an excerpt from her book, Loud and Clear, which was published in 2004. I was in the “thick” …