4th Grade was a tough year for me. Seriously. Sadly, it started out as THE BEST YEAR EVER! I went to catholic school and for those of you who have attended a fine parochial institution you know that any year you get a “lay teacher” (meaning not a nun) you felt pretty darned lucky. My fourth grade teacher […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Changing The World’ category
So You’re Saying My Kid Is Not Going To Be The Next Pelé?
When my oldest son was five years old he absolutely dominated on his soccer team. He was like the Michael Jordan-Tom Brady-Tiger Woods (pre-sex scandal) of elementary school age soccer. And it just tickled me. I’m not gonna lie; I had total mama-bear pride. So naturally when he made the jump up to club soccer […] Read more…
Giving Up Vacation Gladly
Before I had children, vacations for me generally meant lying on a tropical beach, baking in the sun (my twenty-year-old self was kinda honey badger about wrinkles – I really didn’t give a…), drinking strawberry daiquiris (my twenty-year-old self was also kinda honey badger about counting calories), and doing absolutely positively nothing. Nada. Not a […] Read more…
Supreme Court Sucker Punch
As parents we make the rules in our house: in bed by nine, no dessert until you’ve eaten your dinner, no hitting your brother with the wiffle ball bat – you know, the basics. Because let’s face it, even on the best of days raising a family is managed chaos and craziness. Can you imagine […] Read more…
Complacency: The Enemy of Committed Relationships
My husband, who thinks he is a comedian, told what he believed was a hilarious story to our friends. After he had spent the day doing yard work in the blazing 110 degree Arizona heat he commented to our friends that if it had been a landscaping crew out back tidying up the yard in […] Read more…
I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
I knew this month was tough the moment I realized that turning forty was the easiest thing I had done. We’ve all had those kind of times in our lives where we look back and think “how did I even function on a daily basis?” Like brushing my teeth – how did that happen on […] Read more…
Stealing Time: Traveling for Work
I am writing this blog from terminal A18 at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. I’ve been here since 7:30am and am now not scheduled to even board my flight until 11:40. As a working mom my time is beyond precious to me. It is finite. I simply can’t make more of it. Every second is jam packed with […] Read more…
Talking to Your Children About Death
This is tough stuff and I’m not going to sugar-coat it. One of my dearest friends just passed away and I’d say the hardest challenge as a mom was what, when, and how to bring my children in the loop. So the following post is my two cents, for what they’re worth, of the down […] Read more…
Yes Female Breadwinners Are Ruining Society
Fox News recently ran a segment, prompted by the Working Mother Media survey, asking if female breadwinners are ruining society. Fox & Friends host Clayton Morris suggested, and I quote: “But isn’t there some sort of biological need, innate need for men to be the cavemen. Go out and bring home the dinner and actually […] Read more…
What Do You Mean It’s Not All About Me?
Dealing with people is like one giant Rorschach Test. If I’m in a good mood then I find that just about everyone I come in contact with that day are some of the loveliest people on the planet. On the flip side if I’m harried or in a pissy mood the world seems to be […] Read more…