The first month, I did it every day. The creativity was welcome and freeing, and it was even giving me extra content to post on my blog. I was pretty sure that with my new DSLR in hand, this Project 365 thing was going to be a no-brainer. Beginning with my best friend back in MORE »
I’m the kind of girl who really digs her crock pot. I’m stretched just a little too thin in life to slow down enough to really enjoy cooking most dishes. But desserts I can usually get on board with. There’s something about the singular focus that goes in to most desserts that I find kind MORE »
It’s weird, I recently wrote a piece about cursing and motherhood and yet, here I am sitting down to write THIS piece and all I can think of are expletives and whatever the opposite of a euphemism is. Oh, Wall Street Journal, SHAME ON YOU. This week the Wall Street Journal published a piece that MORE »
This month, Nicole Knepper released her hilarious book “Moms Who Drink And Swear” based on her blog of the same name. It’s insanely funny, which isn’t surprising if you’ve read Nicole before. But it also got me self-reflecting a bit. As I looked at her book sitting a top a pile on my nightstand of MORE »
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Several months back, Delilah George — who even as a crawler had been picky about what she wore — started to make it really clear that she had a passion for fashion. I came out one morning wearing earrings, makeup, and a skirt, ready for a meeting and her response? “Oh Mommy, you got dressed MORE »
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The thing is, it’s not that I can’t keep up with the challenge of TAKING a photo a day for a year. It’s the editing, selecting, and especially posting of the images that has me all tripped up. But since I realized last month how little fun I was having with this, and I decided MORE »
My daughter is three. She loves pink and princesses and ponies. One day, if she’s lucky enough, she’ll fall in love and want to get married. And I’m going to want to throw her the biggest craziest most absurd wedding I can muster. Maybe she’ll bring her fiance home for dinner and he’ll be a MORE »
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The Steubenville verdict is still echoing through the chambers (guilty, jail, registered sex offenders, the whole nine yards) and amongst the general assholery opinions the internet over is the one where it’s “kids today” and hell in a handbasket and not at all us failing our youth in teaching them a basic respect for fellow MORE »
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When I was fourteen, my biggest problem was being grounded during homecoming weekend. What never even occurred to me while I steamed and plotted against my parents was that I was lucky to be grounded because I HAD parents in the first place whose job it was to take care of me. Lizeth is fourteen MORE »
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Okay, so mine is a pink silicone number I scored at a blog conference, but having a passive (acoustic? no-batteries-needed?) iPhone amplifier has totally made my music listening easier, and greener, and I can’t recommend it enough. You could get one of those cheap little rubbery guys that I have, or you could add to MORE »
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