Just Doing Life
We Will Miss the Boys of Fall
Please help me. I’m desperate. What do people do on the weekends during the fall if they aren’t watching football? What does a typical Friday night or Saturday look like during September, October and November? What should I look forward to if it’s not the start of...
How One Piece of Paper Changes Parenting
I’m not going to lie… I cried. Today was my youngest child’s drivers test. The last of my little birdies to be launched into the world of driving themselves. She was scheduled to get it in June on her birthday but because of all the shut downs, her big day was...
What Does Your Pause Button Look Like?
We are living though history. We often think of history as something that happened to other people- our forefathers, our ancestors, our grandparents- but we are part of it now. We're walking through it and we will come out of it different people, changed forever....
The Ball is in Our Court America
Dear America, Our world is turned upside down. Two short months ago feels like a lifetime ago. Life “back then” was normal, easy, flowing. We were all just doing our thing. Waking up, getting the kids to school, going to work, hitting the gym on the way home,...
The Things that Matter are the Things that have a Story
Meet Rock. Rock is a little black piece of compressed grains and minerals. When you look at Rock, you see…. a rock. Maybe you see a stone, a pebble or perhaps a little boulder. Something you would walk on, step over, maybe try skipping on top of a lake. Rock...
The Email That Changed Our Lives
Career change the email said. I almost clicked the trash button before I even opened it-- I was sure this email had spam written all over it. It had been a hard few months dealing with loss. In March our sweet boxer suddenly died when a tumor burst in her stomach....
My Footprint
August always marks another trip around the sun for me. It is another year, a new age to embrace and another chance to make a footprint on this world. While I’ve added a few extra pounds this year (dammit!) and my boob size is 36 LONG, I continue to embrace myself...
Why Every Woman Needs True Trenchips
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. ----Jane Austen I am always sad when I hear women who say they don’t have female friendships. My heart hurts because they are...
An Open Letter to Brandy Melville
Dear Brandy Melville, I have a beef with you. If I’m being honest, I think you suck. Sure, some of your clothes are cute and probably comfortable, but I abhor what you stand for. You represent the opposite of everything I work on daily with teenage girls in my...
The Older Your Child Gets, The Closer the Goodbye Becomes
I remember the first day of kindergarten. I remember how far away your senior year in high school seemed and how unimaginable it was that one day you would be leaving me. I once heard the older your child gets, the closer the goodbye becomes… and it’s so painfully...
