Years ago I worked in a medical office and at the holidays the doctors would always give us lovely gifts. One in particular, who happened to be Jewish, would…
Christmas is a time of mixed emotions for many people. For some it is hands-down the best time of the year. Others find it to be the hardest,…
I was at Costco earlier today. Now I am drinking. They have Christmas trees festooned with sparkly lights, reams of wrapping paper and boxes of dingle balls for…
This time last year there was quite the uproar over the Christmas carol “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” …because it’s creepy AF. But fear not, Christmas revelers, John Legend…
I’m not sure if you know, but giving a book is like giving a gift twice. Our little website here at BLUNTmoms is home to amazing authors, creators…
Holidays are pretty stressful on their own, but when you have to introduce a new relationship to your entire family, it adds a whole new level of festive…
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)…
To some people, a Christmas tree is just a tree. It’s something we put up once a year for 25 days or so. We slap some lights on it and…
Subjects labeled ‘urgent’ in bold, with exclamation points, and asterisks everywhere, flooded my work inbox, filled with unread messages, while I frantically scoured through my personal inbox. At…
The last time I remember enjoying Christmas was the year I got a tiny, not-quite-functional toy blender. (Its plastic blade could swirl water, but it was never going…