I am what most Disney movies (and many others) consider evil, mean, hateful, despised, and what stands in the way of the good souls reaching...
“Every woman who heals herself, helps heal all the women who came before her, and all those who come after her.”--Christiane Northrup
When I embarked...
I was watching one of my favorite sitcoms the other day and it just so happened to be the Mother’s Day episode. In the...
As a mother of a teenage girl, I have learned a lot about patience, understanding, and self-control. I am living the nightmare of middle...
Today is hard. Nothing in-particular has gone drastically wrong; sometimes it's just hard.
My 3 1/2 year old is acting his age and throwing milestone-appropriate...
It’s the first day of preschool. I carefully laid out an adorable outfit, complete with matching accessories and practical shoes.
And, yet, she’s wearing a...
In September, hours before we left on vacation with my in-laws, I found out that the heartbeats of my identical twin boys stopped. I...
I will start by saying I absolutely love and adore my own mom. She taught me almost everything I know, and she is an...
It took me 34 years to like myself. As I approach my 34th birthday in this doozy of a year, I’m taking a different...
I look forward to summer all year long. It's typically the time that I really come alive. This summer was going to look different,...
I grew up monolingual. Even though I took several years of Spanish in high school and in university, I was nowhere close to being...
So far in this series, we’ve listened to stories of microaggressions and exclusion, stories from childhood and teenage years, and how racism shows up...
I never expected to watch our friends become widows. Friends, as in plural, more than one. We aren’t even 40 years old yet and...
Half the mommy posts out there today seem to discuss why moms should never judge other moms; the other half seem to tell moms...

























