If you’re like me, the holiday season is always a whirlwind of stress, exhaustion, obligation, guilt, forced conversations with distant relatives with a little...
If you're like me, you worry about the unknown. Especially when it comes to your children, you might worry about having to take them...
The Inevitable
Aging. It’s unavoidable. It creeps up on us at the most inopportune times. One morning you wake up and, BOOM! Wrinkles. Little saggy...
The word Alzheimer’s had somehow become a part of every sentence when anyone asked about my dad. It is an awful, silent killer. It...
Chin: noun
the protruding part of the face below the mouth, formed by the apex of the lower jaw.
Dear Chin,
We’ve had some pretty good...
Nothing is more exciting than when your baby sprouts their first tooth! But what does that mean for you as their parent? There are...
Summer vacation is in full swing and as your kiddos get ready to head back to school, it's time to start making those lists...
I'm looking at myself in the mirror again.
I don't mean that in a vain way—more like in an "oh yeah, I kind of forgot...
My pregnancies were night and day, and six months apart. In my first pregnancy, with my son, I was barely making it through the...
Last year, we joined a CSA here on the westside. Throughout the late spring and summer, every week we picked up a bag of...
Many of my friends and clients call me their Clean Beauty Concierge. I collaborate with a company called Beautycounter, where I advocate for cleaner,...
Winter holidays are over, the children have returned to school, and it's back to business as usual for moms everywhere. You're a few weeks...
My BMI is 39. According to most in the allopathic medical community, I am unhealthy. I am short, overweight, and measured by a scale...
Ahhh New Year’s Day. It sneaks up on us every year. And on January 1st I try my hardest to say I am going...

























