It’s taken me a few weeks to get my head around the feelings of sending my first child away to college. It’s only about 30 minutes away, but it’s also, well, not home, where I’ve been seeing him every day, keeping him alive, for the past 18 years. So yeah, some feelings there. What started …
Okay full disclosure, I’m not sober. I’m more like… a perpetually entry-level drinker who loses more and more tolerance with age and medication, while at the same time maintaining the flavor palette of a 16 year old girl. My bougie and sophisticated friends ordering wine: I’ll have the driest wine you have, so dry my …
This is not a post about how kids and babies should be banned from restaurants and airplanes. Frankly, those sorts of rants are insane, if I’m paying for airline tickets, I’ll bring a chimpanzee if I want to. This isn’t me, finally having self-sufficient teenagers, looking down my nose at exhausted parents just trying to …
When I was a Junior in high school, my Spanish class took a trip to Cancun. Looking back, I have no idea why my parents ever let me get on my very first airplane, to fly to a foreign country, with my friends and boyfriend, to get drunk every night in a Mexcian disco while …
It’s almost like an out of body experience. I’m watching it happen. I know it’s all coming out wrong. It’s nastiness and hurt and it’s just dribbling out of my mouth like black ink, running down my chin, staining my tongue, and I can’t get it to stop. A few months ago I considered a …
Click here to watch me make these in under 60 seconds on Instagram! For $3.50 I can add a soy sauce soaked egg to my bowl of noodles at my favorite Ramen Shop. Absolutely. This is always a hard yes, for me. There is noting better than a giant bowl of wavy noodles and pork …
Are you tired? Emotionally exhausted? Walking around on egg shells and feeling resentful? Dread every time your phone pings? Maybe your friends suck. There’s lots of talk, especially as you progress into adulthood, about how hard it is to make friends, but what about how hard it is to make good friends? Being picky and …
Last month, someone in my community Facebook group asked why Christmas carolers weren’t going around singing from house to house, anymore. To be fair, I’ve lived here all of my life, and have had a caroler at my door never, but I get the sentiment, it was the holidays, and we all love a Hallmark …
I could tell you that I’m leaning into easy recipes because it’s high school basketball season, I’m really busy, and it gets dark at, like, 2pm. But the reality is that seasonal depression is hitting me hard. It took way too long for me to realize what was going on, because I’m usually a full-time …
Once, when Andy and I were newly married, we were Christmas shopping for his mom, and I asked what type of gift he had in mind, and he said, “I don’t know, something with apples on it, she loves apples.” But like, did she love apples? They moved into a beautiful new home when Andy …
“Be kind, not nice.” I read that recently. Be kind, not nice. As a midwesterner, it never occured to me that there was a difference, we apologize for shit all day, and say thank you just as often. Do we always mean it? Idk, the words “ope” and “sorry” come out of me like “ums” …
