Ashley Dolar
Ashley Dolar is an experienced freelance writer, blogger, and certified language arts teacher. She is married to her high school sweetheart who is now a member of the Army Reserve. They have a four-year-old daughter.
Ashley likes to read, write, and get to the gym on a semi-regular basis. Her family has lived six states in ten years, and she currently lives in the northern Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C. You can connect with Ashley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-dolar
School Drop Off :: A Letter to the Man who Yelled at Me Today
To the man who yelled at me during school drop off:
I want you to know that you got the best of me. I yelled...
When My Grandchildren Ask About the Pandemic
When my grandma was alive, she told me three stories nearly every time I saw her: the one where she drove across the country...
Unemployed? Here are 5 Resume Tips to Get You Started
I'm a resume writer. That means I get to talk to people, learn their stories, and figure out the best way to present that...
Guilt-Free Screen Time : YouTube Read Alouds to the Rescue
How many books can one mom read aloud to her children?
Five? Ten? Seven hundred and thirty-eight?
COVID-19 is helping me find out. Before social distancing...
My Anxiety is Giving Me a Hard Time
My anxiety is giving me a hard time.
It doesn’t show, even to me, because my coping mechanism of choice is avoidance. I push my...
A Mom’s Timeline for a Successful Date Night
Date night takes on a whole new meaning with kids on the scene.
Gone are the days of impromptu happy hours and last-minute dinner decisions....
Teaching Our Girls That Their Voices Matter
My daughter was born in 2016. The rhetoric of that year was particularly polarizing, outlandish, and oftentimes, outright sexist. I remember it as a...
Moving Out of Our Old House and into Our New Lives
Moving is never easy. Since I’ve done it six times in ten years, I sort of go on auto-pilot: arrange for movers, declutter closets,...