While on my journey to a better place emotionally, I came to some realizations about the way my struggle with mental illness has impacted the lives of those…
From the moment you discover you’re pregnant, moms everywhere crawl out of their Diaper Genies to tell you horror stories about mucus plugs and their traumatized vajays. And…
I am pretty proficient at navigating Facebook. And by proficient I mean that at any given moment, I am pretty plugged in to what friends in my virtual…
Free range parenting and the backlash it generates are all the rage these days. It’s like you can’t hide under the covers without encountering a news article or…
Dear Blue Bear, Two nights ago, your five-year-old friend, Drew, who has been your faithful companion of ohh, FIVE years now, told you to Shut Up. I know…
We went to our first wedding of 2015 this past weekend. This is when it all starts isn’t it? As soon as there are bees buzzing, flowers growing,…
A glossary of parenting terms you won’t find in the baby books… Arm Roll & Release: The nerve-wracking manoeuvre used by parents in order to remove their arm…
To the Mother in Baltimore, I saw the video. Everyone has seen the video. Everyone is posting it and tweeting it and talking about it. I want to…
I anxiously awaited the most talked about interview with the rest of America. We all wanted to hear what Bruce Jenner was going to say. When it finally…
This vignette represents just one of the hundreds of days and nights I spent while abusing alcohol. On some mornings the hangovers were worse, and I had to…