To My Son’s First Friend, Thank You
Chances are I won’t be giving you this letter for a long time. Right now, you can’t read or write and some of you can barely talk yet. I’m…
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Friends, We Need Each Other
Girls, listen up. I have something important to say. About us. We need each other. We do. Today I got an unexpected gift in the mail from a precious…
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Why We Absolutely Need Mom Friends
I was a few months shy of my 31st birthday when I became a mother. Not young by any standard, but life experience doesn’t make the transition…
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True Friends Support You, No Matter What
“I need to see you as soon as possible, this can’t wait.” Those were the words I read in a text message from my best friend. It was…
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A Husband is Not a Gap-Filler
On a cold morning in October of 2015, four of my friends came to sit with me while I discovered whether or not I passed the bar exam. They were…
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We Promised to Be Friends Forever—and Then We Were
I’ve never really been one of the “popular” girls. Sure, I was a friendly kid who was later liked well enough by most social circles as…
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To the Baby Who Gets My Best Friend as a Mom
Hi peanut! You don’t know me yet; your mama and I are best friends. It hasn’t been very long since we found out that you’re in your…
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Because I’m a Mom, Sometimes I Just Can’t Even
Am I a total flake? I mean, I feel like I’m flaking out a lot lately. I have to reschedule meetings, bail on my workout buddies,…
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It’s Lonely Being the Only Mom in Your Friends Group
I started out my motherhood journey as a newlywed, fresh out of college, at 20-years-old. I was elated. I was ready. I had always wanted to be a…
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It’s a New School Year and Time to Break the Mom Circles
Earlier this summer I was attending an event with one of my daughters. As she took off with her new friends, the mom who organized it warmly welcomed…
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