If there is an inappropriate conversation to be had I will have it. I’m really good at it. It’s one of my super powers. This week’s inappropriate conversation took place at a celebration of life. I can only take half credit for this inappropriate conversation as technically my fairy godmothers were already having the conversation and […] Read more…
That’s it? I blinked and it was over. The day when my children told me and made me gifts that extolled the awesomeness that is my motherhood is done? Already? Sigh. I’ve got to say that I’m going to need more than a once a year acknowledgement of the herculean effort that is my life as […] Read more…
I knew something had changed when I was helping plan my friend’s birthday a few months ago. It was one of those big ones with a zero in it. She quickly dispelled any ideas of the typical birthday extravaganza her husband and I might have been entertaining. She broke it down to us like this: […] Read more…
I remember sitting in a junior level communications class at UMass Amherst in 1995 when one of my classmates declared that her goal was to be an MTV VJ. I was like, “say what?” I remember thinking that is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard anyone say. But in retrospect I get it. When […] Read more…
I turned forty recently. I’m not one of those freaks who dreads each birthday but my forties have definitely been different. There has been one shift in my forty-year-old-thinking that is so seemingly trivial it is embarrassing to admit. Because of all the terrible things in this world that I should be concerned about, I […] Read more…
It seems like every time I read a book, article, or a blog discussing strategies for advancing as a professional woman nine times out of ten it will be suggested that we working women need to find mentors. Sometimes they’ll be called by different names but these more senior professionals all serve the purpose of […] Read more…
I have to hand it to them – Congress has balls. Big ones. I don’t know whether to be furious or jealous that they have the cojones to threaten to not do their jobs for nearly an entire year. Part of me is like “heeeyyyy, that is crazy bad,” and the other part of […] Read more…
Keeping the schedules of me, my husband, and our two sons straight is like having to complete a 1,000 piece jig saw puzzle. While canoeing. In the open ocean. During a hurricane. Just kidding it’s way harder than that. Every Sunday night (don’t judge, I do wait until the last minute) I pull up my […] Read more…
have two sons, two rescue dogs and a husband. I am the only living thing producing estrogen in my house. Up until recently I had managed to keep the hormonal balance pretty even—or so I thought. My illusion came crashing down around me two years ago when I showed my son a picture of a […] Read more…
As 2015 fades in the rearview mirror I’ve been experiencing a general feeling of foreboding. So like any educated modern day person with a problem I turned to Google and searched “unexplained sense of foreboding.” According to the search results I either possess the power of Clairsentience (the ability to feel emotions or physical sensations […] Read more…
