Sheltering in Place Hurts Even More When You Live Far Away From Family Since March 8th, my family has hardly left the house at all. I have strapped on my mask and loaded…
The Quarantine Me Is Drinking More Than The Pre-Pandemic Me. Anyone Else? These past couple of months, while in lockdown, I’ve been getting intimately acquainted with a new friend. She loves to…
I’m Already Starting To Panic About This Summer I’ve always loved summer here on the East coast. Lord knows we get enough snow and the ice doesn’t melt…
It’s Hard to Look Forward To The “New Normal” Well, here we are in week whatever of quarantine and the initial novelty of having to stay at home has…
I Miss My Friends But I Have Nothing To Say To Them Right Now I love my girlfriends — especially my single-mother besties because they know what the hell is up and can read…
Everyone Is Being So Productive Right Now And I Am Paralyzed I’ve been told I’m a pretty motivated person. I never procrastinated doing my work in high school or college. I…
Why Parents Need to Stop Saying, ‘Trust Me, it Gets Worse,’ To Each Other I am sick and tired of hearing these unhelpful words.
Why I Talk to My Kids About Controversial Issues & All the Awful Stuff in the News If we’re scared to talk to them about the big issues all around them, how can we say we’re doing…
I’m The Mom Who Doesn’t Cook, And That’s Okay You know those moms who joke about serving chicken nuggets to their kids on occasion? As is frozen, battered processed…
It Feels Like My Kid Is Never in School My second grader handed me an order slip for her yearly school yearbook the other day, and I found myself…