The other day, I came across a blog post lambasting mothers for complaining about motherhood. I won’t link to the post, because I don’t want to give it traffic, but it was in response to Momastery’s fabulous article, “Don’t Carpe …
Booger Forest
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EXPERTS SCHMEXPERTS (How to Liberate Yourself from the Parenting Section)
Like most parents, I adore my offspring. They make me laugh daily. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture cues up in my head when they triumph. Watching them sleep is practically a religious experience. I’d step in front of a train for them …
The Night I Didn’t Have a Heart Attack But Laughed at a Woman with Dementia
I may have failed to mention—even to my own mother—that I spent the evening in the ER a couple of weeks before our move. (Sorry, Ma. We were a little busy.) The whole story requires a little background, so bear …
The Unsettling Reality of Settling
In case you didn’t know this about me already, I have a bit of a wanderlust problem. That might be obvious, considering our family’s year of living nomadically around the U.S. I can’t help it. I like to BE different …
That Time Our Kid Found a Condom on the Sidewalk
This weekend we had a barbecue with some friends at a park by Lake Michigan. The sun shone, a breeze blew, the kids played while the grown-ups talked. It was picturesque and lovely and perfect. And then our 10-year-old, Dolittle, …
16 Things We Don’t Do to Stay Happily Married
As of yesterday, I’ve been married to my husband, Havarti (My sweetheart’s cheesy nickname. Ba-dum-pum.) for 16 years. Happily married. Really happily married. I don’t want to seem too self-righteous here, but since marriage can be tricky and marital woes …
10 Reasons to be Happy Summer’s Almost Over
Every February, I daydream about tank tops and flip flops. And every August, I’m over it. Summer is fun for a while, but there are some things that always get old by the end. If you’re feeling a little bummed that …