I am looking for the merits of keeping it all bottled up so as not to ‘offend’ people who don’t even like me anyway. They don’t like me any more for keeping it all bottled […]

I am looking for the merits of keeping it all bottled up so as not to ‘offend’ people who don’t even like me anyway. They don’t like me any more for keeping it all bottled […]
Today, my hips did not hurt. I went to a 4th of July BBQ. I frolicked with my kids. I tried a zip line swing. But I still heard the bone-on-bone cracking when I got […]
A few weeks ago, I went on a cabin-in-the-woods vacation with my family and my girlfriend and her family. And I experience bald-faced racism that I didn’t know still existed. It was a horrific episode. […]
I spent yesterday evening cyber-stalking my childhood bully. To be more precise: I spent the wee hours of this morning, from around 3am to 4am, looking him up online. It wasn’t hard to find him […]
True Sentence No. 17 I stumbled upon this video online. Summertime mom woes, narrated by Green Day. To the tune of all their classic songs, of course. Of course it’s obnoxious. Rushing to back-to-back carpool […]
I went for a drive tonight, shortly after dinner, to clear my head. When I re-emerged a couple hours later, Margot was waiting up. She pitter-pattered into my room, wearing a fuzzy Peppa Pig night […]
I started this blog to just write. And feeling stuck, I decided to just write one true sentence a day. That’s an easy enough writing prompt, right? From there, the blog has morphed into a […]
A handful of days ago, I wrote a blog post chronicling my run-in with racism in a small, rural town on Lake Superior in Wisconsin. My main takeaway was the posts’ eponymous title: You keep […]
I experienced racism that I didn’t know existed (still) in America, and it’s left me reeling. And sad. And most of all scared. I’m still trying to make sense of what happened. I spent a […]
There comes a point in every mom’s life when she’ll discover online mom groups and become transfixed. I did. About three years ago, I found a local mom group tied to a high end children’s […]