Don’t Love Me, Love Yourself

I have no idea how to breastfeed a baby properly. I’ve been doing it for 21 months, and I do it my way, and it works. I have no idea how to create healthy lunches that look like snowmen, or ninjas, or letters of the alphabet. I feed my kids what I can, and hope that…

How Are Those Resolutions Treating You?

15 Ways To Lose Weight in the New Year!  10 Ways That I Will Be A More Present Mother in 2015!  479 Tips To Shedding The Pounds and Shedding The Shame! Well Happy New Year, parents everywhere.  If the magazine covers and the Facebook posts don’t have you feeling terrible about yourself, then perhaps you…

The Secret Society of Stroller Moms

It’s 10 am.  I’m walking out of Starbucks backwards, pushing the door open with my rear end so that I can pull my stroller through the narrow doorway.  Without spilling my coffee.  Bennie is tucked into his infant carseat, buckled into the stroller, sleeping soundly.  If I walk fast enough and don’t stop for any…

Do Something

I sat in the parking lot of my son’s preschool today, waiting for the clock on my dashboard to tell me that it was time to pick him up.  I scrolled through my Twitter feed, and there it was.  Another school shooting. The social media response is predictable by now.  The hand-wringing.  The prayers.  Moms…

How To Spot an Internet Troll

Ah, the Internet.  It’s the foundation for so many beautiful things.  Communities of mothers who learn from each other, a virtual treasure trove of recipes and craft ideas, and a phenomenal way to share updates with friends and family all across the globe.  It’s also how I met my husband, but that’s a story for another time.…

Angry Blogger

This space has been kind of quiet lately.  I’ve taken a step back. I came home from BlogHer12 with more questions than answers.  When a friend asked me about my trip to NYC today, I told her the truth.  I felt fulfilled by BlogHer, and yet it pulled back the curtains on some ugly truths. …

BlogHer12: Is There Room At The Table?

As 4,000 bloggers unpack their suitcases and settle into the laundry/write/prepare dinner routine across the country, the proverbial Internet river has suddenly swelled with “Post BlogHer Recap” posts.  I’ve spent a few days on my little lifeboat, floating down the Twitter stream, comparing and contrasting my own BlogHer re-entry with that of other bloggers. What…