Dear men: You are now nearing the middle of your life. You have blissfully sailed through life. You took beer bongs in college. You ate pasta for four years. You found yourself a cute little wife and bought a cape cod and started having kids. Some of you played in basketball leagues and some of […]
Let’s face it, somewhere along the way, probably when child rearing became a topic or an area of expertise or an aisle at Barnes and Noble, we started babying our kids. When I was growing up my mom kicked me out of the house and I actually wasn’t allowed back in until lunch. Snow days […]
“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” Russell Baker I used to believe in nurture rather than nature but that was back in my first son Beau’s childhood when he compliantly went along with almost every suggestion and I wanted to proclaim myself the best of […]
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi On my birthday my eleven-year-old son Donovan gave me a card, which I have displayed for the entire world to see. The thing is, if you have met me you know his view of me is a bit skewed. How could it not be? […]
“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’” Dalai Lama Stop running around like a maniac. Stop rushing into Target, Marshalls or the mall. Stop […]
Getting pregnant at age twenty years old pretty much ruined my life. It ruined partying and beach trips and all-nighters. It ruined carefree and ‘don’t give a crap’. It ruined meandering around this world trying to figure out who I was or what I wanted to be because when that baby came out of my […]
In November last year in honor of Thanksgiving Day, I decided to say thanks, 200 times; not just say it but to write it because quite frankly I’m a believer in the old fashioned Thank You Note. At first it was easy: I wrote my husband, but who wouldn’t be grateful for a man […]
When Thanksgiving rolls around it’s easy to say that you are grateful for the usual. I get it. I do it. I’m grateful for my adorable kids and the husband who always remembers my birthday and my family that surrounds me like a warm glove or my job where I am loved and appreciated […]
Let’s be honest, we live in a society where Hardee’s sells burgers by placing a Marilyn Monroe look alike on the top of a fast car with mayonnaise dripping down her chin (which by the way I think is disgusting but after seeing the commercial come on in a bar and watching men stop […]
< Don’t be jealous of my huge tip…. I’ve been a mom for 21 years. I’ve been a teacher or caretaker of children for longer than that, so I’ve seen a thing or two in my lifetime but it’s the food service industry that has taught me the most about bad behavior from mankind. Here […]
