It’s back to school season and parents everywhere are jumping for joy as their kids are leaving the house to be in someone else’s care for several hours a day. For working moms, it’s farewell to expensive summer camps. Pumpkin spice lattes are flying out of coffee shops and the bikini body pressures of the…
Read MoreHormones and Beach Houses
“I belong to the collective that tranforms from a cuddly duckling to a raging werewolf…”
Read MoreDo Not Tell Me To Relax
“Relax… That is the number one most unhelpful thing that anyone can say.”
Read MoreThe Fancy Girl and the Trumpet
“A much as I think I would like to be, I will never be a fancy girl.”
Read MoreLosing My Humanity
I’m not sure if I am a completely normal person. I like to think everyone else does the ridiculous things I do, but a lot of this is done in private so I never know. Then again, the way everybody else carries themselves leads me to believe that these adults don’t have moments where they…
Read MoreParenting: New and… Improved?
I oftentimes find myself comparing my parenting to that of the generations before me. I tend to assume they got it right and that my generation is the one struggling with this whole raising-a-person thing. I assume because my peers and I are alive and pretty much thriving that our parents did a good job. …
Read MoreHang Out With My Thang Out
On my day off, I decided to get a massage. This turned out to be one of the least relaxing massages I have ever had. I couldn’t get out of my own head and just enjoy the moment because I was far too busy worrying that I might’ve inadvertently welcomed a “happy ending”.
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Fluff Emergency
In April of this year, I lost the baby my husband and I had been planning due to an ectopic pregnancy. It was rough physically and emotionally but this isn’t about such sad things. This is far more vain that that. My current problem is that it caused me to be fatter than I wanted…
Read MoreTainted Love
In my household, both my husband and I have certain chores that we have divided between the two of us. He hates cleaning toilets so that’s always my job. I hate scrubbing showers and tubs, so that’s always his job. I should learn to keep my nose out of his jobs because somehow this one…
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Scaredy Crow
I am an anxious person. I get worked up easily and think the worst of anything that is out of the norm. If I am on my way to visit my friend in Chicago who I usually talk to via text all day every day and today she isn’t answering, my thoughts range from “She…
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The Well-Adjusted Adult 