Good dads never lie. What bull. All parents lie to their kids, including moms—even BLUNTmoms. Parenting is the world’s hardest job, and childrearing survival often demands parental fictionalizations.…
A lot of people wonder what it’s like to have anorexia, but I know all too well. My eating disorder and I coexisted for five years (age 11-16).…
Little white lies. We’re all guilty of using them, whether it’s to protect someone’s feelings or to get out of attending the fifth Pampered Chef party invitation we’ve…
Of all the holidays we must partake in, I think parents with kids aged newborn to five-year-olds should simply opt-out of Halloween. At the risk of being a massive…
Ah, fall. The crisp cool weather. The turning leaves. The fun of getting my sweaters out of storage. That all sounds nice. One problem: I live on the center…
Among the latest Internet hate-fest rampages is the subject of autumn. I don’t get it. People seem to have lost sight of the fact that pumpkin spice lattes…
April 11, 2015 was my daughter’s fifth birthday party. In the pictures from that day, I am wearing a knee-length fluttery skirt and an aqua tank top. I…
“Mommy, daddy said a bad word! “Mommy, daddy was driving really fast!” “Mommy, daddy stuck out his middle finger at a guy who cut him off and he…
“I have so much to get done before school gets out.” I’ve been hearing this a lot lately from all kinds of moms – full-time working moms, part-time…
Strap yourselves in. This may take a while. In no particular order, here are some things that make me want to move to my own planet. Cat Haters…