Dear Pop Culture, Quit Making Dads Look Like Deadbeats
From my earliest TV memories of Tim Allen and Al Bundy, mainstream media has made husbands and fathers look like…
Continue ReadingFrom my earliest TV memories of Tim Allen and Al Bundy, mainstream media has made husbands and fathers look like…
Continue ReadingI am sitting here crying while I type this. I am hurting and I can't even pinpoint from what. Rejection.…
Continue ReadingWhile we all haven’t had a hysterectomy, as women we do all journey along with a uterus for a time.…
Continue ReadingPreparing for my daughter’s recent school camp was a time of excitement, list checking and shopping for items. Nerves about…
Continue ReadingShame . . . is what I felt in the Emergency Room telling them I needed psychiatric help. Shame .…
Continue ReadingThe needle in my spine sent shock waves of pain straight down my leg. I felt one short breath away…
Continue ReadingFour days of gray skies leave me hungry for the light. I make my way into our backyard when the…
Continue ReadingThere’s very little in this world more adorable than a toothy-grinned toddler splashing around in a bathtub or sitting perched…
Continue Reading"We need to get together . . . " Have you said these words? Likely. Likely you say them in…
Continue ReadingI'm talking heart racing, break out in sweat, can't breath, dissolve into tears, certain-of-death anxiety that begins days before even…
Continue ReadingMy hands were shaking as I dialed the number to my doctor’s office. I held the phone to my ear…
Continue ReadingI was a party girl. A St. Paddy’s Day, party like it’s 1999, drink you under the table, party girl.…
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