Articles by Megan Rathz

I am fortunate enough to have so much in my life that I am grateful that I simply could not consolidate it to one column. I wrote a couple of…

There are so many things I love and am grateful for from all corners of my life. I so often hear and read about the importance of acknowledging your gratitude…

There are times in your life when you realize how uneducated you really are on a particular subject. I work as a teacher in an elementary school in Indianapolis. One…

I have a son and a daughter. I like having the perspective of being a boy mom and a girl mom because I find myself being able to look at…

If you’re a dog person, you understand dog people and get it. If you’re not, you don’t. You’ve either experienced the relationship with a dog and know what it means…

I never thought of myself as someone who was going to have a stepparent. I grew up with a very solid and traditional family nucleus; I knew my parents would…

There is magic in the air, right? And by jolly magic, I mean there is a great deal of stress. We all have our to-do lists. There are last-minute gifts…

One thing my husband and I started when we first got together was a tradition of exchanging a snow globe and a Christmas village. I remember one day as a…

There is something about becoming a parent that makes the holidays magical. When you’re a kid, the holidays are magical just because they are filled with so much excitement and…