I furiously pumped my arms up and down while my legs pointed up in the air at a forty-five degree angle. I wondered if a cardio class would have felt better than Pilates with all the rage I needed to sweat out. Do they make...
As I drive to work this morning with a blemish on my chin I think about how maybe I should have done more to cover it up lest I offend the people I see today with my ugliness. And then I think further. Being Pretty is...
If you're a parent on the internet, you have no doubt by now heard about Momo, this frightening face with bug eyes and a terrifying bird mouth that allegedly is spliced into your kiddo's Peppa Pig cartoons on YouTube telling kids to harm themselves. (Don't...
I was in the shower just now and thinking about what I would put on when I got out. Jeans would be the appropriate pants for today, a day momming in and out of public. But who decided jeans were our casual wear? The jeans...
“Where is my HAT!? I can't go without my pink hat!” I shouted, stringing rainbow yarn through my sign. “And if I can't find my PINK hat, I can't just wear a DIFFERENT-colored hat!” I tore the mitten bench apart, then the closet, then the mitten bench...
Every family has a language; certain phrases or slang based on life experiences that is unique to that tight-knit group of people. For example, there's Too Silly, something my dad would say about me when I'd hit that manic Jim-Carrey-in-The-Mask level of overexcited that never failed to annoy...
“How do other people do this?” my husband Cory asked the ceiling, with his palms in his eyes. It's the morning after. We were up late. If you were to peek in our window at 9:45 p.m. any given night, you'd see a wild-haired naked three-year-old jumping...