Rex (my oldest) started Kindergarten this fall, catapulting me into a whole new world of elementary school parents, book fairs, curriculum nights, fundraisers, picnics, and parties. Having no…
Perimenopause and midlife depression both found me in my forties. Both were hard to talk about. Instead, I carried them around in my invisible backback. Some days it…
It was a cold rushed morning. As usual it began at 5am, well for Luke that is. Every morning at 5am he gets up quietly, closes our bedroom…
As a group facilitator, I get to listen to people on a regular basis discuss what it means to be male or female. Between my men and women’s…
I am tired of overwrought kids’ birthday parties. Although I have been guilty of throwing them: I once hired a clown because nothing says “fun” like hissing at…
Robert Frost’s road less traveled is child’s play compared to the road one thinks they will never, ever, even remotely, go down. But I went down it, both…
I love my little Sour Patch Kid, but in our pre-Kindergarten summer she has developed a massive attitude problem (I’m about 92.5% sure it isn’t demonic possession). But,…
It is Monday and I had a super busy weekend I should say. I have a child who is full of energy all day, who also thinks that…
Someone once advised me that there was “no blueprint for parenting” and that I would make plenty of wrong turns. I should be okay with that, he said,…
As a new mother, I gave up Stephen King and New Yorker cartoons and filled the minutes before bed with “how to raise a perfect child” literature. By…