First of all, try not to be jealous of my amazing life and that the most interesting thing I have to talk about right now is my hermit crabs. It is February, the school year is on auto pilot, and I've got nothin'. I'll run into friends I haven't seen in a while at the mall and they're all, "So what's new?" and I panic because I am digging so deep to find any shred of ...
Race Car In The Red
"So how are your... um... moods?" My doctor asked, as I fought to keep my nipple from peek-a-booing out of the open-front paper "shirt". My moods. The word mood is interesting, because it indicates feelings like happy, sad, mad, etc. Mood doesn't necessarily encompass the overwhelming desire to jump out of your car and commit murder when the person in front of you is ...
Making A Murderer – The Cliffs Notes
If you're like me, the NETFLIX series Making A Murderer has trapped you, chewed you up and spit you back out into a colder, crueler world where nothing will ever be as it once was. It is an infuriating, haunting and fascinating look into the justice system that will make you want to crawl into your TV and punch people. Obviously there are two sides to every story, but I ...
M-I-C…K-E-WHINE
I've always thought of Disney World as a parenting right of passage. Just an unavoidable box to check and you're gonna do it whether you like it or not. Sorta like performing the Hajj. A pilgrimage that lasts six days, and all able bodied persons who can afford it are expected to go at least once in their lives. As our girls grew older the question was never if, but when ...
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping
If you didn't have a chance to buy the amazing book I was a part of last year, Scary Mommy's Guide To The Holidays, you can finally stop bathing in guilt because I am gifting you with my chapter below. It's about how to scare the crap out of your kids while staying within the boundaries of good parenting. You're welcome. The idea of a strange bearded man breaking ...