By Rachel Stewart Johnson of rachelstewjo.wordpress.com Here’s a rumor: There was once a time when human beings could sit in waiting rooms occupied only by a 13-month-old edition of an employee newsletter called Focus: Health. Turns out there are many components of modern life we didn’t know we needed years ago. Here are a few examples…
My Daughter Is a Liar
By Emily James of emilysarahjames.wordpress.com My 4-year-old is a liar. She tells me things like, “I don’t need to go to the bathroom,” and, “I already blew my nose.” The way she curls her lip, puts her chin down and looks off to the side gives it away, so I’m still safe. But just as…
Can You PLEASE Stop Pretending Life Is Rainbows and Unicorn Farts on Social Media? Sincerely, Someone About to Barf
I see you, posting your happy-go-lucky status updates and memes. Declaring your platitudes and Praise-Be-Gods for life’s blessings. Humble-bragging about your kids’ accomplishments and your spouse’s thoughtfulness. And I’m asking you to stop. Please, just fucking stop it already. Because no one believes you. Or at least those of us who can see behind the…
Hottest Chick in This Place! (How Times Have Changed)
By Shya Gibbons of Vintage Dreams with a Modern Twist Vocabulary is forever changing. An evolving language is a positive sign that society is moving and shaping; society, and its inhabitants, are growing, learning, and adapting. I try my hardest to stay up-to-date on current “cool” terms, but the fact I put cool in quotation…
Love Languages: My Mother and Me
By Keenan Tabor McGrath of Dear Queenan For my mother, my first best friend: I always thought of my mother as a crazy person—a slightly disorganized, chronically late, constantly nagging crazy person. She’s the kind of person who has a cabinet full of thank you notes that will never actually get mailed and craft projects…
What It Really Means to Love Like a Mother
By Kate Chapman of This Life in Progress She stands in the kitchen looking at me. Her hair is stringy and needs to be brushed. She’s shifting from side to side uncomfortably, unsure of what I’m doing there or what to say. Her brother overdosed last night. Her mother is my good friend, and the…
Just Another Brick in the Window
By Susan Goldstein of Seriously? Life is Too Short; and So Am I We had just relocated for the third time in about as many years. During that span, we went from one to two babies. It would be a blasphemous understatement to say that I was … simply overwhelmed by Life. Oh, no. It…
It’s True What They Say About Little Girls and Their Daddies
By Joanna Owusu Well, I had a pretty good run. With two sons, I had a lot of years being Number One. They always adored Dad, but the Mommy Show was definitely prime time during their early years. The Consoler-In-Chief and Fun Times Brigade, their eyes lit up the brightest for me, without a doubt….
Today I Feel Like a Failure
By Kelly Arnell of Why Did We Have All These Kids Anyway? Today I feel like a failure. Motherhood is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type of gig. The more I do for my kids, the less they appreciate me. The more I ask them to do, the more fighting about…
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