Earlier this week, Khloe Kardashian’s name was in the news…yet again. But this time the 32-year-old wasn’t making headlines because of her relationship with Lamar or one of her many television programs; this week, Khloe Kardashian was in the news because of her body. And while Khloe’s weight has been a topic […]
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Life Sucks Under the Red Tent
By Michelle Riddell This is a story about a mother, a daughter, and a rest area bathroom. The mother and daughter are together in a stall, the daughter clearly in distress: her first period. She knows what is happening to her in a clinical, puberty-filmstrip sort of way, but mostly […]
It’s Not All Hand Washing and Light Switches: A Story of OCD
By Rhiannon Giles of Rhiyaya.com The line between quirky and weird seemed to be stuck between my fingers. That feeling when you eat a donut or an ice cream cone and the residue makes your fingers so sticky that you desperately want to find a sink? That’s how they felt. Licking them […]
Inside the Mind of a Mom Who Has PMS
By Shannon Day of Martinis & Motherhood I’m alone in the kitchen, making lunch. My face is sporting the expression commonly referred to as Resting Bitch Face. Although, mine isn’t really resting; my forehead is in on the action, too. I am all scrunched up, like a pug. A confrontational (or perhaps constipated) pug. […]
To the Father of the Little Girl He Teased Publicly About Being “Fat”
By Kristen Polito of Salt and Pepper the Earth Dear Sir: I’m guessing you didn’t mean intentional harm when you laughed loudly and instructed your young daughter to get on the scale at the Publix Supermarket so you could see how “fat” she was. I’m sure you didn’t mean anything by […]
My Illness Is Invisible. That Doesn’t Make It Any Less Real.
By Jenny of Life’s a Polyp “You don’t have anything wrong with you. You have no issue walking,” he said with dismissing disdain for what I had shared as I tried to empathize with him. My word alone that I have a chronic illness wasn’t enough for another person with […]
Autism Still Lives Here
Autism still lives here. I want it to leave. I’ve tried taming it, coaxing it, encouraging it to move on. For awhile now, I thought it listened. So sure was I that it had vacated the premises, I made comments like, “I’m not so sure he even has autism,” and […]
Dear Puberty, How Do I Explain You to My Daughter?
By Nicole Hardy of She Emerges Three females dominate our house, which can be overwhelming for my husband at times. Our neighbor, who is also suffering consequences for procreating only girls, feels the need to offer up parenting wisdom every time he stops by for a beer. His favorite piece […]