Until a few months ago, much of my identity was a mystery to my kids. Sure, they knew what I did with them, but they had very little clue what I did without them, despite my attempts to explain...
I read a meme the other day that made me both laugh and cry. It said, “Sitting alone in your car outside your house counts as self-care.” This hit home for me because since Shelter-in-Place started many weeks ago,...
Not too long ago I was at a park with my daughter when a fellow mom had a bad accident coming down the slide with her two boys. Her leg snapped and she was immobilized on the ground, crying...
Writing has always been my escape, whether in a daily diary in my teens or in my articles for our readers. This year, I have weathered the different emotions stemming from giving birth to postpartum exhaustion to returning to...
My partner and I are five seasons into Schitt’s Creek, and it’s quickly becoming exactly what we need during this time of isolation. We began the show right before coronavirus started rocking our world, and I can’t help but...
I recently connected with a friend and at the end of the phone call, she said to me, thank you so much, you have filled my cup.
I have heard this expression before, but with my recent higher levels of...
“Why haven’t we done this before?”
It’s a question I’ve been hearing from my kids, my friends, and my own brain almost daily since my phone stopped trying to auto-correct “coronavirus” and life as we knew it in the United...
I went to bed one night in early March and when I woke up our entire world had changed. At first, I ignored the significance of it, dismissing it as someone else’s problem. That will never happen here, my...
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Scarlett O’Hara’s famous line from Gone with the Wind has been stuck in my head recently. I have spent much of the past year weighing a big career shift, and as...
I dislike Valentine’s Day. I always have. The older I get, the more I’ve come to dislike it. Why do I need a holiday to remind me to tell my loved ones that I love them? Christmas is barely...
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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! San Francisco
Winter is here and there’s no better to explore the fascinating world at Ripleys’s Believe It or Not! San...
