When he was small, he would ask me to sleep with him every night. “Please sleep with me, Mom.” And most nights I would. I would snuggle in…
I’ve been slowly introducing my kids to the movies of my generation. These films not only shaped my childhood, they should be inspiring to the ones that come…
Yo, middle-age! You sure did sneak up on us over here at BLUNTmoms. And, although we’ve been expecting you, we can’t help but feel offended by some of…
I think I may be coming down with a serious case of senioritis. Since I’m at the middle age mark, you might be thinking, “Oh, you mean creaky…
I’m not one of those women who dreamed about “doing nothing” in an empty nest. Truth be told, in some ways I’d been doing nothing for 15 years…
Over the weekend I was cruelly reminded of my age when I took my daughter to Forever 21. I was one of the oldest customers. Talk about a…
It’s like I want to make it poetic. I really do. But I sit down to write and there is an overspill of nothing. I want to take the…
I have always prided myself on multi-tasking but there is nothing like a pandemic and hunkering down with a houseful of kids to bring latent talents bubbling to…
The truth for many of us lifers, chained to our loved ones by vows or a mutually signed mortgage, is that sharing a bed doesn’t mean we are…
How’re you holding out in this massive shitstorm? It’s been over a month of quarantine over here, and boy oh boy, has it been fun to see peoples’…
I am no stranger to Death. We’re not friends in the traditional sense, but I do consider us to be associates at the very least. We have danced…
I never ever planned to homeschool. When I got pregnant with my first child, my plan was to quit my job as a high school teacher and stay…
Dear White People, We are all racists. I am a racist. You’re a racist. We’re all racists. I’m here to hand out Racist Badges like Oprah hands out…
When my now-husband and I got married twenty-plus years ago, we had to undergo a few sessions of couples’ counseling with a pastor before we could get married…