“34DD” she said, and smiled. I looked at her across the brightly lit dressing room. “You’re kidding me. Are you sure?” From his lookout point in the stroller, my tiny wisp of a 1 month old started to cry. “I’ll be back with some options for you to try on” she laughed, and closed the…
I grew up next to the ocean, but I rarely went in. The water was always too much of something. Too cold, too salty, too unforgiving. The currents were strong, and I wasn’t a great swimmer. The speckled blue waves were murky as they churned toward shore, and I was afraid of what swam beneath.…
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…
Dear Little Sister, Seventeen years ago, when you were just a baby, you joined our parents as they dropped me off at college for the very first time. Now it’s your turn. In just a few short weeks, you will pack a set of XL Twin sheets, a shower caddy and flip-flops, and a Caboodle…
Dear Delta Gammas of Maryland, That email that just went viral? The one that’s popping up on my FaceBook newsfeed and all over Twitter? The one where you call your fellow sorority sisters “boring”, “f*cking f**ggots”, and “retarded”? News flash ladies. The country is not laughing with you right now. Most of them are laughing…
Dear Jane Doe, I am the mother who wrote about teaching our boys to be kind. As I hit “publish” on that essay about the ways in which parents must take responsibility for raising sons to be brave protectors, I was thinking about you. My words about teaching kindness went viral, and the conversation turned…
I’ve heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn, and we are led To those who help us most to grow If we let them…and we help them in return Well, I don’t know if I believe that’s true But I know I’m who I am today.…