2020 was a hard year for all kids, no question. However, as an essential working parent, the added loneliness for our kid was heart-breaking.
As we learned of pods creating and family cohorts forming, we found ourselves left out. Left...
Happy New Year! I am a New Year’s resolution girl. Inasmuch as New Year’s Eve and the days leading up to it are about reflection, New Year’s Day is about identifying the things I want to change and the...
A woman comes home from work and begins undressing. Before she knows it, 12 armed police officers break into her house and handcuff her. It happens so fast that she can’t cover herself and she’s completely naked. She remains...
Vibrators. Dildos. BDSM. Orgasm; words or ideas that I used to think were dirty (or at least in any media I saw called them dirty). For example, I remember the scene in the 80’s movie Parenthood when Steve Martin’s...
We are nearing the end of a year where every hour felt like an eternity and yet somehow the months flew by. We started 2020, as we start every year, filled with hope and aspiration. Making resolutions about how...
I love celebrating birthdays as much as I love Christmas. Unlike other holidays like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or even Thanksgiving, birthdays are unique to the individual celebrating them. When I considered having children, I wanted them to be...
I was listening to 96.5 on the radio this morning, when Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas” started playing. I sang a few of the lyrics to my daughter Ilse in hopes that she would sing it with...
This is the year of impossible choices. Absolutely crushing, no-good-options, completely impossible choices. For everyone...but maybe especially parents.
Keeping children inside and away from other kids for a few weeks is one thing. What about keeping them away from children...
Christmas of 2017: gone was my child-free, 30-something, free and easy lifestyle that came with its own nonchalant and devil-may-care attitude towards most things in life. Many of my friends and family members had already ventured down the path...
2020 has sure done a number on us. Remember when the new millennia was supposed to be this huge thing, when we worried about the Y2K madness that was going to disrupt our lives? 2000 came… uneventfully. The Y2K...
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2025 Mother’s Day – Ultimate Gifts for HER
For Mother's Day, be sure to give the mama(s) in your life some ME time! If you want to pamper and spoil mama more,...
