Hello, hello? Is this thing even on? Can you hear me? Will someone just talk to me?!?! Please!? I need to hear the sound of my voice again. Not my mom voice – high-pitched and so sickly-sweet it gives me a migraine just thinking about it ringing in my ears. […]
To Insanity and Beyond
Peeling Away My Character Flaws
Deep down inside, I loathe certain characteristics of my being. The trauma of my dramatic upbringing has left me with many scars that I carry in shame. There are parts of me I will never be able to change, because every time I think I have, every time I think […]
5 Ways Kids Drive Moms Crazy In Summer
There are many ways in which a mother can go crazy over our children’s own insanity throughout the course of the summer. It is inevitable. Kids turn into plain old jerkwads when they get that first taste of summer freedom.They will go out of their way to re-hardwire our nerves […]
Depression – The One Word I Wish My Kids Never Knew
Depression. As a writer, a lover of all words big and small, it is one of very few I can say I vehemently hate. The ugliest of words, it is. It defines everything that has ever gone wrong in my life, my head, and my soul. It is the catalyst […]
Defining Degenerative Disc Disease In Motherhood
What I never could have prepared for, though, was the impact DDD was going to make on the way I parent. How the slow and methodical progression was going to interfere with the image of motherhood I had envisioned….
I Don’t Always Want To ‘Go Hug My Kids Tight’
What I am about to say probably won’t sit well with some of you. Some of you will even feel the need to immediately point out all the circumstances in which this could make me the worst person to ever walk this planet. Let me clear the air before we […]