There I was enjoying a nice, relaxing shower. The kids were sleeping, the clothes were folded, and the floors were actually mopped hence I...
You know the scene. I'm talking about the morning parking lot scene where we moms hurriedly thrust backpacks, lunches and kisses onto our precocious...
Tragedy, neglect, addiction, manipulation - all these words can describe "The Con Man's Daughter" by Candice Curry. Yet, this memoir is so much more...
“I just love taking my kids to the dentist!” said no mom ever.
If I’m being honest, I don’t like taking myself to the dentist...
When I learned my first baby would be a girl, I was nervous. Years of ups and downs in my relationship with my mother...
A lot of ink gets spilled about Mom Guilt. That creeping, nagging feeling, however true or untrue, that we could have done it better....
Mid-winter.
That blah time of year smack in-between 'post-holiday cheer' and 'pre-spring joy.'
Ugh.
My husband is a pilot. And when the weather is bad, he...
I have been a runner for the past 16 years. By no means am I a professional or elite runner, but I have run...
Mothers protect children.
All around the world, across the majority of the animal kingdom, mothers protect children.
We carry our babies for nine months in our...
I am guilty of obsessing over others’ responses to tragedy. By this, I mean, I take to the deep dark vortex of news websites,...
Since my first pregnancy seven years ago, I have come to relax … a lot.
But first a disclaimer: The information included in this article...
It happened to me when my third child was two months old. My husband was on a remote tour in South Korea. We were...
Military Lifestyle
Hi Friend! The Art of Simplified Cooking with Emily Ley
Do you have Internet friends? I do. They don’t know they’re my Internet friends, but I refer to them as “my friend” Emily and...
