The installers from Home Depot just left and I find myself tiptoeing in and out of our new closet. I am in awe of its spaciousness, its emptiness,…
This tale is not really mine to tell. However, not everyone with an important story is a writer. This is about my dear friend, Lucy*, who trusted me…
At Target today, my seven-year-old son picked out flowery teal leggings with a matching top. When he tried on the brightly colored items, he said “I know people…
I know what you’re thinking. How does one accidently wax anything, especially an asshole? No, I wasn’t carelessly walking around with a hot wax strip and no, I didn’t suddenly…
Some of you all are vaxed and waxed and ready for a hot girl summer. I’m vaxed, and I shaved my legs once last week, and I’m not…
I’m planning a trip down to Florida to visit my 80-something parents. It was barely 7 AM when the phone rang. It was my mom’s daily “I’m just-checking-in”…
Seven years ago, when I was in my 20s living with my mom and my sister, I woke up one morning and came downstairs to find that the…
During the course of a normal day, I’ll hear the words, “You just don’t understand!” come out of my daughter’s mouth at least twice. Usually it’s accompanied by…
Your teenagers are okay. No really, they are. (Stop laughing.) How do I know? I am a teacher and over the past decade I have taught thousands of…
Sometime during the few days it took me to read Jennifer Weiner’s new novel That Summer, I woke up in the middle of the night with a simple…