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 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 […]
I recently commented on an animated thread on another social platform. I shouldn’t have. It was a weigh-in about Rock v Smith at the Oscars of course. Hundreds of comments thick, I waded in. I […]
It’s all good in the childhood. I am obsessed with my kids’ clothes. I wish everything they had came in my size. And looked equally cute. (I don’t love the mama size options for most […]
Trigger warning: This post contains some highly profane expletives that readers may find offensive. When I was in high school, I recall an English teacher saying cuss words were a sign of poor vocabulary and […]
The Most Magical Hype of the Year Christmas is magical when you’re a small child, and at some point it transforms from being a season of sheer delight into a season of hype. All the […]
It’s like watching your heart walk around outside of your body. That’s a paraphrase, of a paraphrased quote, I stumbled upon yesterday. Being a mother is like watching your heart walk around outside of your […]