The idea of living in the present moment is a hard concept to grasp. It sounds great in theory, but if you’re anything like me, it’s challenging to implement in the throes and chaos of everyday life. A lot of people…

I study moms all day long. And – in all honesty – something they often complain about is dads. They’re less-than-no-good at the family breakfast routine, they don’t always understand our deep-seated doubt, and their repeated ability to pee on…

There’s a cause-and-effect relationship between what’s in your mind and what’s happening in your life right now. What’s in your mind becomes what’s in your life. It’s a simple formula: How you feel about yourself and what you say to…

As a mother, I find dinnertime to be a royal pain in the you-know-what. The determining, deciding, picking, shopping, chopping, cooking, cleaning, and arguing are just so laborious. Not only is it hard on any given day, it has to…

For the majority of my life, my insides didn’t match my outsides. On the inside, I was overwhelmed and stressed out. But on the outside, I pretended everything was picture perfect. For better or for worse, I lived a life…

Last year, I buried my maternal and paternal grandmothers just weeks apart. One night, as I drove home from visiting with my unresponsive grandmother, I couldn’t help but shout over and over again, “I am not okay. I am not…

Two weeks ago, I developed a horrible rash. What started out as a pale pink blemish on my left cheek quickly erupted into what looked like a full-fledged, flesh-eating disease across the entire bottom third of my face. It wasn’t…

You can learn a lot from the roller rink. My daughter Layla has determined that skating is decidedly not her thing, but we still enjoy it every once in a while – me and the kids, skating around in the…

Have you ever beat yourself up for not being the perfect mother? Ever feel like when it comes to being a mother, you should be good at it from day one, and infallible from that day forward? Or, that you’re…

I am a crier. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you that my frequent crying jags are both predictable and pathetic. Sad commercials? No brainer. Sappy movies? Of course. Weddings? Always. Funerals? Forget about it. But even I can usually hold…