Let's put mommy guilt in its place.
Checking out the last two posts here, I notice a theme: getting Mom a Mother’s Day gift can be tough. We’re either busy moms ourselves, or it’s hard to find something we think Mom will like. I got the chance to try out Red Envelope with a $75 gift credit, and check it out: Mother’s [...]
I’ve spent the past year getting more and more disgusted with politics. First there was the whole debt ceiling debacle, where we got to watch our elected officials act like toddlers on a playground, incapable of working together. (Actually, most toddlers I know behave better.) Then we somehow entered a time warp, and suddenly the [...]
Six years ago (ish), I became what’s referred to as a WOHM, or a Work Ouside the Home Mom. I had a full-time job in an office, and a brand-new baby daughter at home. Naturally, that life change took some getting used to. Fast forward to 2009: I was big and pregnant with #2, working [...]
Every family has those special “things” they do together. As a kid, my family would do things like watch The Dukes of Hazzard and wrestle with my dad in the living room. Until that time I accidentally scratched Dad’s cornea with my fingernail (I considered nail trimming to be a form of torture) during a [...]
Before I had kids, I was a department store/pro salon junkie. All of my beauty products were brand name, expensive and procured at places that were literally miles from anyplace you could also buy milk or aspirin or cat food. Children not only put a crimp in my budget for beauty supplies, they also took [...]
While most people were out celebrating New Year’s Eve, I was having a mini-meltdown. We’d had a wonderful Christmas and then… something about the coming new year just filled me with dread. After having a good cry and discussing it with my husband, I narrowed the reason down to the fact that the first few [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of people reminding me to “take time for yourself.” As a writer, I’ve done my share of articles urging mothers to find time for relaxation and self-care. It’s good advice, sure, but personally it’s rubbed me the wrong way, mostly because it always felt like another item on the [...]
Thanks so much to everybody who commented about the new anthology, DEAR BULLY – 70 AUTHORS TELL THEIR STORIES, which is available in bookstores now. I did a random drawing for one of my personal copies, and the winner is Tracey! Tracey, I’m either a dolt when it comes to this sort of thing, or [...]
Bullying is one of my biggest worries where my kids are concerned. It’s always been a problem but lately it seems almost epidemic, with dire–sometimes fatal–consequences. I find myself constantly on the lookout for signs that my school-age daughter is being bullied, or engaging in bullying behavior. I know what I’d do if I found [...]
