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…
“There is a lingering expectation that men will pay in money. But when it comes to time, it is almost always the woman who pays. And money is…
Should you have kids young or wait until you’re older? With the average age of first-time moms climbing, we thought that this was the perfect issue for BluntMoms.…
Back in the 1980s, when I wasn’t watching bitchin’ Madonna videos on MTV, I became aware of the saying “You can have it all.” To young women like…
I am a horrible mother, not for what I do, but for what I think. I think I want to run away. As I wash the dishes for…
Recently I wrote a blog post in which I extolled the virtues of lollipops as an emergency prop for kids while traveling. Lollipops have served me well over…
When I found out I was pregnant, I was young, and I had many endless naive egotistical fantasies about what it would be like to be a mother.…
Hi. My name is Alison and I’m the mother of two beautiful girls. Seriously though, what mom doesn’t think her kids are beautiful? We have to be able…
While my eyes catch the bubbly, outgoing gals enjoying their friends in the school pick up line, my 7th grade daughter is standing off to the side,…
I’m the mother of a 9-month-old son, and I think we all know what that means. It means that I’ve successfully reared a child for 3/4 of a…