It’s hot and you have kids. Most likely you’ve taken them to a splash pad or at least heard of them (I hope). If you’ve never been, drop…
“Fuck it. Fuck,” my 4 year-old casually announced one morning many years ago, as my cell phone rang somewhere in the living room. Hmmm, perhaps I’d misheard. In…
As Mitch Albom once wrote, “There’s a story behind everything… But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” Naturally, my…
Dear Young Girls, In case the messages sent out to women on the daily aren’t reaching you or clear enough, I wanted to take a few minutes to…
In the few years, I have been in recovery for my gambling addiction I have learned a lot about myself and how others react to the mistakes I…
I had a bout of ill health recently. When I am going through a bad spell I don’t talk about it with anyone which I know pisses some…
Dear Mandy that I used to be, Maybe you’re sitting there in a high school classroom, ruminating that they don’t have windows because kids would jump out of…
I talk a lot. Sometimes too much. I’m an over-sharer and sometimes I feel the need to word vomit in the most simple of conversations. It’s just who…
I survived, which wasn’t a given at the outset. It may have been the longest, most trying week of my life, and there may have been some close calls, but…
I was at the mall the other day, rushing into Boscov’s to buy some lipstick, when I caught the reflection of an older woman wearing the same leopard…