My daughter clutched her piggy bank tightly as we walked into the store. She must be having second thoughts. I’m a terrible parent. How is empathy and compassion…
Dear Santa, I know I’m a middle-aged woman who long ago stopped believing in you, but can I just pretend this year? Can I time-travel back to that…
By the time that the first week of November is gone, the world sends itself into a hyper-speed of everything holiday-related. Stores throw-up pounds of Christmas decorations. People…
The 2020 Holiday Gift Guide we all need this year, brought to you by the clever, creative, pyjama wearing, bra-less-haven’tshavedourlegsin8months BLUNTmoms. Our 2020 holiday guide will give you…
You read it right, there are 12 weeks of jingle, plinky, sparkly, ring-a-ding holidays. Don’t believe me? Okay, I get it, but we need to stop denying Christmas…
I have a plastic box with an airtight lid and it’s full of all sorts of baby memorabilia I’ve held on to for over seventeen years now. It…
Christmas gives me the shits. Or at least it used to. The music, the colors, the intensity in which it is rammed down our throats starting in October,…
On October 23rd 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland, where I’m originally from, decided that abortions due to serious and life-threatening fetal defects were unconstitutional and should thus…
I’ve never wanted to be pregnant. The thought of essentially carrying an alien inside of me for nine months is the type of thought that could put me…
Every year, my mother sends me beautiful pictures of her garden (she literally has the most beautiful gardens in Bosnia). When I get them, my heart skips a…