Your coworkers are chatting about it. Your mom's texting you her daily score. You can't open social media without seeing it. Wordle is everywhere....
This time of year, I wake up in darkness. I walk outside to pick up the kids from school in the afternoon, hoping for...
The number one question you get asked as a new parent is, “Is the baby sleeping through the night?” With our first kid, the...
Replace almost every instance of “sister” with “mother” in Luisa Madrigal’s song “Surface Pressure” in Disney’s movie Encanto, and it’s me.
In the movie, Luisa’s...
Have you seen the 1000 Hours Outside initiative? I came across it a few years ago and have followed along, but have never participated....
Keep your kids (and you!) from going stir-crazy with these nine winter-themed indoor activities. These activities are not only fun and easy, but they...
My husband and I didn’t find out the gender of our baby during pregnancy, but gender norms and stereotypes were absolutely a part of...
Intruder drills are often as familiar to America's students as fire and severe weather drills in classrooms and schools. In fact, a form of...
This is an open letter to my goddaughter as she prepares for the birth of her first child.
Dear Beautiful Goddaughter,
I was a young Auntie...
Last month, my daughter came home with a flyer for the Penguin Patch, a school-based holiday shop just for kids. If you're a newbie...
I like to joke that while my day job is as a Communications Director for a public school district, my true career is as...
Three days ago, at four am I sent my husband a two-page google doc simply titled, “I’m angry.” So yeah, I’d say I’ve rounded...
When I was little, people would remark how much I looked like my mother. Those people were wrong. Other people would tell me how...
4:45 pm
As I start to finish up work tasks for the day, I look beyond my laptop and out my home office window. That...
In + Around Indy
Day Dates Around Indianapolis
It's June – have you scheduled a date with your significant other yet this year? One of my favorite things to do with my...
