I said goodbye to a friend a few days ago. As we hugged in her living room while our daughters ran around the apartment, I realized that this was going to be a bigger deal for me than I anticipated; another sneaky, sad milestone of motherhood. My first mom friend is moving away. We’ll still […]

I’ve never been much of a trendsetter. Okay, in the tenth grade, I bought a pair of these awesome pedal pushers from that store Wet Seal, and that was way before capri pants were a thing in my tiny middle-of-nowhere high school. But that’s maybe it. I would never make it as a “cool hunter.” […]

I remember my infant psych class in college, part of my childhood development minor. One of the techniques our professor taught us about was using “extinction” to get a baby to stop crying during the night – more commonly known as “cry it out.” I remember her saying that the technique worked well, but only […]

The other day I was hanging out with Teddy in our living room, and I put on a CD for him. I was a bit tired of our usual fare, so I picked out an old goodie, Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. As the music played, I realized this was the soundtrack to my childhood. I […]

When I was young, my grandparents owned a farm in northern Michigan just outside of a resort town where I went to day camp with the richest kids I’d ever met. They had Birkenstocks and shaggy blonde hair. They looked like euro-Jesus before it was even hip yet. I was certainly never without, but I, […]