A Bit of a Throwback

As youngsters, our girls were choosy about the movies they wanted to watch. While many girls their ages were intimately familiar with movies like Frozen and its quite-famous song, Let It Go, our girls were not drawn into the story because they found some of the...

Rap Battles Should Be the Norm

If you follow this blog and my writing here with any regularity, you’ve come across at least a couple of posts referencing the musical, Hamilton. This one will continue with that hyperfocus as my girls have come to refer to it because I have been listening to Ron...

A Safe Place in the World

Because I know I can sometimes spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through different social media feeds, I try my best to limit how often I let myself open the different apps on my phone, especially if I’m working on something like writing or if my girls and I...

Joey Doesn’t Share Food

From the first moment the Friends character Joey (played by Matt LeBlanc) first uttered those words—Joey doesn’t share food—my husband and I have used them as a familiar refrain for me. It doesn’t matter if we are out to eat or here at home, or (and maybe especially)...

The Sleep of the Teens

After we had our girls, I began to wonder why it is we respond to the question regarding how we slept last night with the phrase, I slept like a baby because I came to understand that babies do not tend to sleep through the night. In fact, they are not supposed to...