Free-Range Helicopter Parents -- a Gen Xer's Parenting Blend
This morning when I slid into my seat at Cracker Barrel for a networking breakfast the topic already turned to back to school. The first...
What kind of mother gets a call about her child's behavior the third week of kindergarten?
Well, there she is. My sweet, beautiful snowflake began school all starry eyed and excited. Well, maybe I was more excited than my child....
Calling a Truce in the Mom Wars
For years I felt like a failure because I couldn’t handle being a stay at home mom. Comments like “We’d live on bread and milk if that’s...
A Letter to My 20-Year-Old Self on my 40th Birthday
Hey Girl, (that’s how we talk now BTW. But we both know slang has never been our strong suit and, spoiler alert, that’s not going to...
What You Need to Know About Your Perfectionist Friend
I’ve been beating myself up for months over something I hard I needed to do. I called myself weak and let the anger and resentment simmer...
The Totaled Eclipse
Music blared while wind blew through my open car windows dragging with it the smell of spring, hope and blue sky. My husband and I had...
He Only Corrects the Good Ones
My senior year in college I was editor of our college newspaper. You know, the old days, when they printed the things on paper. Anyway....
The Day My Friend Was Stabbed At School
Have you ever been locked in a classroom while an ambulance carried away a classmate after an incident of school violence? I have. It...
The Day I Stopped Being the Perfect Mother
Two days after Valentine’s Day with a threat of incoming snow and ice my husband loaded our suitcase into the back of our SUV early in...
It's Okay to Want Your Kids to Go Back to School
Last week after snow day #3 plus one school holiday I was done. It was past time for the kids to go back to school. My husband, whose...
