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Here’s to Us, Middle-Aged Moms Just Trying to Keep Up

Do you ever feel like the rotting avocado on your counter? There it is. So promisingly fresh. So deceptively OK. Until it’s taco Tuesday and what…

I turned 35 years old on my last birthday, and what I have figured out over the last few months is that this age is STRANGE. It’s the age in which…

Dear younger me, Good news is you’re still going to be kicking it at 49, which should shock you considering you think people my age fall into…

It hit me this week. It started with me almost puking during an exercise class because I got so winded that I couldn’t breathe. But it really hit…

I’ve got a birthday coming up. The big 3-9. An age that can no longer be classified as “mid-30s” and is one slippery year away from the…

Hi Babe, Happy Birthday! Are you feeling old? I know you are because you keep telling me so. And, on the off chance either of us forgets you are…

I’ve been in my 40s for a few years now, long enough to reflect on all the gifts life gives in this new decade which used to sound so old. Now that…

I remember watching a Sex and the City episode in my early 30s when I was up late one night nursing my twins. Samantha talked about how liberating…

The other night, I was lying in bed, mulling over the fact that soon I will be 40 years old. I know, you’ve seen my picture on my bio and you…

Hello, 40. It’s nice to meet you. It’s been a long time coming, this day, you and I together once and for all. Don’t misunderstand; I would be…