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I bit my lip as I watched my nervous 15-year-old son walk around the outside of the log-cabin-like restaurant, searching…
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I bit my lip as I watched my nervous 15-year-old son walk around the outside of the log-cabin-like restaurant, searching…
Continue ReadingI could see she was holding back tears as she walked down the steps of the school bus and into…
Continue Reading“You need to stop this,” my mother said one evening when I called her in tears. “Join a book club,”…
Continue ReadingI still smell my son’s head. He is 18 and witty and a homebody and his hair always smells like, well,…
Continue ReadingMy 14-year-old texted me from her break at work, telling me she felt impending doom. You don’t know my daughter,…
Continue ReadingIt's waaay into swimsuit season, and as a 43-year-old mom of three, I've got my issues with swimsuit season. A…
Continue ReadingMy husband bought me a dress for our wedding anniversary, which is the first time in 25 years that he…
Continue ReadingI read a lot of parenting blogs. And books and magazines. Plus, I follow a ton of writer-moms on social…
Continue ReadingThese two teens are my favorite people on the planet. Always were, always will be. I will take them in…
Continue ReadingI love looking at my children. I always have. I remember rocking them, holding them just so I could look…
Continue ReadingEditor's note: This post discusses anorexia/eating disorders I happened to overhear my daughter’s online meet for health class. The topic…
Continue ReadingI never knew how quickly tears could sneak up on me until I became a mother. A few nights ago,…
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