Several months ago, my husband and I separated. I was blindsided. He, for all practical purposes, dumped me after 17 years of marriage. As I reached out for…
I was sixteen years old when I made the bittersweet transition from Virgin Most Pure to Experienced Woman of the World. In retrospect, I was way too young.…
I recently went to see my doctor and she told me that if I didn’t make some lifestyle changes, I was going to be in a world of…
Nothing says adventure like driving 2400 miles in a thirty-eight foot RV with 8 people in 7 days. Did I mention 4 of the 8 people were under…
When my daughter was a toddler, she was fond of giving big, sloppy kisses on your mouth- or your ear, cheek, foot…Really, the kid was a smooching machine and…
When I was a little girl, my mother would make a futile attempt to take a short afternoon nap on weekdays. Always bored and often lonely, I would…
Dear Father of a Teenage Daughter, You love your kids and would do anything for them. That should be enough, right? Wrong! You don’t fucking know what you…
Teaching my kids table manners is akin to a badger teaching her babies to fly. I’m not saying I have no manners; I’m saying I like to not…
Everyone seems to be going on great vacations and magical summer adventures—Disney, week-long beach trips, weeks at the lake. Kids are doing amazing half-day camps seemingly tailor-made to…
“Eww…you have a creepy-hair on your back! Can I pluck it!?” is something I would never, ever say to my wife, but I have heard numerous times from…
As you probably already know, Americans are not the most culturally aware people on the planet. We, as a whole, are not very geographically literate either. We have…
Welcome to the Blunt Moms cultural awareness program where we provide educational pieces about cross border issues. In this latest edition, a Canadian explains questions of international import…
Blunt Moms writers hail from all over the world, as do our readers. We are, however, founded in Canada, and proudly so. Because Canadian blood runs through our…
My husband is really good at remembering people’s names. They’re just not the names that belong to the people he’s talking to. “We ran into Noah and his…