Members of the RFM team share books they’ve recently enjoyed. Maybe you will, too! I’m author-loyal, so when I saw a title from one of my favorite writers on my high…
Author: Karen Schwartzkopf
Karen Schwartzkopf
Karen Schwartzkopf was the managing editor of RFM from its founding in 2009 until 2024. An award-winning writer and editor, she specializes in strategic communications and lives with her husband in Henrico where they raised three adult kids, a cool cat, and one very childish dog.
Having come of age during the Title IX era, I was a proud participant in the early movement that helped transform every field, court, and sandlot into blank slates on…
“We turned out okay, didn’t we?” is a thing my husband and I have said out loud and fairly often when doing a cost-benefit analysis of a particular experience for one…
Members of the RFM team share books they’ve recently enjoyed. Maybe you will, too! Tell me a book is based on a true story, and its stock goes way up. …
Winter break or Christmas vacation – or whatever you call the beautiful block of school-free time during the holiday season – never falls at the perfect time for families.When my…
Why is middle school so hard? And why you should count yourself lucky if your kids move on having formed a bond with at least one teacher or adult.
When you live with anxiety and you desperately want your kids not to have to – how that manifests in family life and why talking about it is so important.
Shortly after giving birth to our first daughter, my husband looked deep into my bloodshot eyes (the whites of which were now red from the hemorrhaging that had occurred while…
Sorry folks! No partridge, no pear tree, and not a single turtle dove. No swans a swimming or maids a milking, and not one lady dancing (let alone nine). Truth…
Don’t you just love a big family wedding? “Absolutely!” says my nephew, when the minister asks if he takes this woman to be his lawfully wedded wife. His answer is…
Whether it was Aaaaaugh! or Eeeeeek! or Ooooooh! no juxtaposition of letters would have done that shriek justice.Hot iron? Puncture wound? Home intruder? Those were the thoughts I remember spiraling…
Living with allergies – food, pets, and environmental – isn’t always easy, but it’s something a lot of families are doing.
