If you’re a basketball fan, you have been probably keeping up with the news of the NBA lockout. Weeks have gone by with no games this season and fans are growing restless. With all the hoopla surrounding the LeBron James trade, will he even get a chance to play this year? Will the Lakers win another championship? Will Kemba Walker get an opportunity to showcase his skills?

These are among the questions swirling around my house. My son, an avid basketball fan, keenly tracks updates every day to see if his favorite players will grace the courts this season. I’m awakened each ...

It’s been a busy year for Jennifer Covello. Her company Frittabello LLC, which focuses on new and expectant mothers, has won several awards, including a bronze medal from Jenkins Publishing for her self-published baby journal, “My Life…A Chronicle of the Journey.”

“The products are selling themselves,” says Covello, a Norwalk mother of two. “They’re being sold in more retail outlets, so business is growing.” That trend will continue with an expansion into services geared toward time-stressed, sleep-deprived new moms.

Covello fits this growing business around her own ...

Those first sleep-deprived months of your baby’s life can feel like years. But before you know it, you’ve got a tween at the table who wants to know, “Mom, what was my first word?”

“Today when I see young mothers with their little babies and looking haggard, I offer them the same advice I got – ‘Enjoy this time, it goes by too quickly,’” says Jennifer Covello, Norwalk mother-of-two.

“But I know they won’t listen – I didn’t!”

What Jennifer did manage to do as a new parent was to keep a journal of sorts, first for her son, then her daughter. Now practically ...