Spring in Arizona is a slice of Eden. The weather is perfect, the Sonoran desert is in full bloom, and there’s not a cloud in the sky. So what person with half a mind and relatives in Arizona wouldn’t come for their own lovely spring break? We are lucky enough that every year like migrating […] Read more…
One Working Mom For Marriage Equality
As a professional, when I got pregnant I realized for the first time that this playing field we call life isn’t equal after all. It was a nasty lesson to learn – especially when all I wanted to do was be psyched about being a new mom. Instead I found myself having to combat the perception that […] Read more…
Why All Working Moms Need God
Let’s be clear that I am writing this post at 9:30 on a Sunday morning and I am totally blowing off church. Yes I am a sinner. A sinner raised by an atheist mother and a father who believes life after death is one long dirt nap. Interestingly enough it was my non-believer father who inspired […] Read more…
Not Crafty? Join the Club!
Holidays send me over the edge. And not because I am known to be shopping for presents on Christmas Eve (truly I work best under pressure) but because as a mother to two young children every holiday requires that I make a sad clown attempt at being crafty. The cute and kitschy are not my forte. Creating an adorable […] Read more…
Breaking Up (With Your Girl Friends) Is Hard To Do
We’ve all had bad breakups. The crying, the eating of ice cream, the refusal to eat because you’re sick to your stomach, the guilt, the “What’s wrong with me?” stage, the grief, and finally the slow crawl towards healing which can be derailed at any moment by a chance encounter with your ex and their […] Read more…
Sequestrapalooza and You
Politics, like most everything else in life, is made to seem way more complicated than it actually is. Mostly because if we just realized our nation’s capital is full of mean eight grade girls and brilliant nerds who still carry grudges against the “Big Man On Campus” we’d get a lot less worked up about the […] Read more…
Why My Son’s ADHD May Land Me In Jail
I know the exact moment I knew my son had ADHD. He was seventeen months old and I had been away from him for three days – the longest stretch ever in his young life. When I first saw him he came toddling over to me, I picked him up, and then the weirdest thing […] Read more…
Men Who Do Housework Get Less Sex, Study (Clearly Conducted By Men) Says
Nothing gets me hotter than walking into my house after a long days work, smelling the pungent aroma of Lysol, and marveling at sparklingly clean floors. A close second would be waking up in the morning to discover all of the week’s laundry has been washed, dried, and folded. Now if it’s actually put away I […] Read more…
Fighting With Your Partner – Normal and Healthy
About a century ago, when I was first married, I was chatting with another newlywed woman in our neighborhood and the subject of fighting came up. She proceeds to tell me that she had thought she and her husband would never fight. As I start to giggle because I think she is making a joke (I’m thinking this […] Read more…
New Years Resolution: Me
As working mothers we don’t have fires to put out – we have bonfires to put out. Every day and twice on Sunday we dash from blaze to blaze trying to create order out of the chaos. So when do we have three hours to go get our hair cut, colored, and blown out? Or an […] Read more…