Browsing: Editor’s Voice

Karen Schwartzkopf

My sister married her high school sweetheart. My cousin found the love of his life in sixth-grade English class. Not so for me. By the time I met and married…

kids with Santa

Too much work and not enough downtime had left me feeling all used up. It had been unseasonably warm – one of those it-doesn’t-even-feel- like-Christmas years. Factor in an ongoing…

Halloween is the ultimate kids-will-be-kids holiday.It offers no social redemption, except perhaps the remote possibility of teaching your child how to say thank you – like she means it –…

Karen Schwartzkopf RFM managing editor and writer

Not long after I retroactively named my daughter after TV broadcaster, cancer survivor, and all-around inspiration Robin Roberts, the whole world seemed to grow obsessed with names. Okay, mostly because…

When my dad turned seventy-five, there was quite a party.We were all together: my four older sisters, my brother, and me, various and sundry spouses, the majority of his seventeen…

There was no more fun to be had. Not for us anyway. The Dippin’ Dots buzz that had sustained us for the last hour had officially melted away.Attention guests. The…

Karen Schwartzkopf

The little girl on my front porch steps stood about a hair bow taller than the wrought iron rail. She circled both hands around her mouth, forming the smallest of…