Dear cherished, young adult children of mine, First off, stop laughing. I do know I’m technically no longer middle-aged. I’m well past it unless current life expectancy rises…
Before I even finish typing this first sentence, I can already feel the heat begin to emanate from my computer monitor from the blinding, judgy glare of a…
I’ve been angry a lot this past year. Yeah, I know – Join the club, bitch. I glance around and see it’s a big club, and there’s always…
The list of heartbreaking things in our world is pretty damn long right now. It’s easy to feel depressed when we dwell on topics like gun violence, racial…
When I was a kid, the thought of the year 2000 would cause me to daydream about life on a distant planet, commuting by spaceship, and robots doing…
Who remembers that pithy little ad campaign of the 1980’s and early 90’s that smugly thought a directive like “Just Say No” would in fact deter kids from…
If you don’t know what a VSCO (pronounced “visco”) girl is, you’ve obviously been living under a rock for the past six months, so quick – find a…
So apparently the current occupant of the White House has discovered this “new problem” in our country. He wants parents to be aware because there have been some…
What do a brand-new Mom and a naïve college freshman have in common? Pretty much everything, if you can remember back to those hazy days of confusion and…
Back in the 1980s, when I wasn’t watching bitchin’ Madonna videos on MTV, I became aware of the saying “You can have it all.” To young women like…