A woman usually has a companion called discomfort when she visits her gynaecologist; a word whose meaning covers everything from ‘yes, a little cold’ to ‘sorry I screamed’.…
Dealing with an ex who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), the other B-word, can be trying. The experience can become amplified if you have children together and must…
I don’t know about you, but I HATE car rider lines at my kid’s schools! Even worse, when you have to do parent drop-off in person! I love…
I don’t care what the popular love songs are preaching, marriage is nothing like a love song. Now, some of these mushy songs talk about unconditional love, a…
I have developed an irrational hatred of Ted Lasso. As in the uber-popular, almost universally praised TV show about a doofy guy named Ted Lasso who makes peoples’…
We spent all day planning for my party. It was going to be the first time I had my new, popular friends over to my house since joining…
What a glorious day, I think to myself. I am skipping and humming as I go about my day as if I am having the best damn day…
I’m watching my seventh-grade son navigate digital learning. Not like it was at the end of the last school year, when the Los Angeles Unified School District (abruptly)…
My daughter clutched her piggy bank tightly as we walked into the store. She must be having second thoughts. I’m a terrible parent. How is empathy and compassion…
I’ve never wanted to be pregnant. The thought of essentially carrying an alien inside of me for nine months is the type of thought that could put me…