“That must be the most fun job.”

True confession time. It is.

I learn something new every day. (Did you know more tornadoes strike the United States than any other nation on Earth?)

Students now graduating from college are facing limited job prospects and unprecedented amounts of debt. And, since so many will move back home, their problems will quickly become their parents’.

Many of us solemnly nodded to the instruction, and then proceeded to immediately fiddle with the radio. When an annoying commercial blasted through the speakers, we couldn’t help ourselves

The annual rankings of baby names have just been released by the Social Security Administration, and the results offer an interesting window into what does and doesn’t influence us.

All parents think they are choosing a name for personal reasons, but the list reminds us that the decision may be more of group think than we realize.

The now notorious Time magazine cover showing a 26-year-old mother with a confrontational stance openly breastfeeding her almost-four-year-old son triggered a ferocious response.

Before me sat a tray with a metal dome that concealed an awaiting entrée.

As I reached toward it, I imaged a feast of eggs and sausage, maybe a few sautéed vegetables. I had developed gestational diabetes during the pregnancy, and I expected that, like all my meals in the previous three months, this one, too, would be devoid of fruit, bread or anything that might trigger an unhealthy spike in my blood glucose level.

That will be a common reaction this week as people pass newsstands and catch a glimpse of the new Time magazine cover.

To illustrate a story on attachment parenting, Time features a photo of an attractive model-type, hand-on-hip, gazing confidently into the camera. Her shirt is tugged down under her left breast and her almost-4-year-old son is nursing.

 John and Julie Schwartz Gottman, authors of “And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives” (Crown, 2007), have been researching marital stability and divorce prediction for more than three decades. Their 2007 data revealed that 67 percents of couples expressed marital dissatisfaction during the first three years of their baby’s life.

Many parents and children adore his books because they are often scary, because they deal with honest, sometimes troubling, emotions.

Sendak may have worked in an under-appreciated genre, but he was a literary giant, from his subversive “Where the Wild Things Are” in 1963 to his most recent, the chilling “Bumble-Ardy,” (Harper Collins)

The National Center for Safe Routes to School, in partnership with the League of American Bicyclists, has coordinated the day. It takes off the increasingly popular Walk to School day, held every October.