Ahhhh, it’s that time of year again… The stores packed with busy shoppers. Yards covered with inflatable Santas, snowglobes and other oversized-holiday favorites. Kids everywhere making holiday “wish…
Deck the halls with boughs of holly Fa la la la la la la la la ‘Tis the season to be…judgey?!? Wait a minute. I don’t remember that…
Stop me right now if you’ve never seen anything like this on social media: “I was having the WORST day today! Everything was going wrong. And then when…
We all sometimes witness things that make us want to BARK at other people. Bad drivers, fashion victims, slow walkers and close talkers all bring out the worst…
It was something about the phrasing that got to me. Something about the cadence of his words, the staccato of his speech. “Nobody loves me. Not even my…
There are many women out there just like me. Maybe loud, for sure smart, perhaps even tall, certainly not shrinking violets. We make people uncomfortable as hell. For…
I awoke with a pounding headache, a kid’s foot in my face, and a crooked neck. Yet, in a few hours, none of that would matter because I had booked…
Dogs have been members of my family for almost my entire life. I grew up with mutts and my daughters are growing up alongside probably-mutts; I say “probably”…
Our daughter is a committed student. She competes well in dance. She survived her first high school party without drinking. She has made excellent decisions in friends so…
Before I had kids I was rarely ill. No colds. No flu. No ear-nose-throat infections. My immune system was Teflon-coated, permeated only occasionally by self-induced day-after-the-night-before-type maladies. Enter…