By Audrey Sanchez of Two Dogs, One Cat, And A Baby Moving is hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re stuffing your 2004 Volkswagen Jetta with the contents of your first apartment or if you’ve hired movers to load three bedrooms and two bathrooms worth of boxes into a twenty-six foot […]
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Why I Can’t Write About Paris
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Our hearts are with Paris. Prayers for Paris. #PorteOuverte We’ve all heard about it by now, and still, I can’t write the words. I can’t write them because I can’t find them. They’re lost, floating around somewhere in a sea of sorrow and […]
Life Lessons From My Four-Year-Old And Former Self
By Andrea Rosas Howe of The Howe To Blog “Mommy, did God make Daddy funny because he wanted Daddy to be funny?” my daughter asked one day. “I suppose so.” Then, fishing for a compliment, I pressed further: “What did God make Mommy?” “Mad.” I wasn’t always mad! I used […]
Ladies, Can We Please STOP Being So Damn Disgusting in the Bathroom?
I thought men were the lazy ones, and then I walked into the ladies room at Walmart. It made me want to throw up, but I couldn’t because the toilet was overflowing with balled up tissue and impurities. Come on, ladies… nobody wants to see that shit—literally! It’s a little-known fact that […]
C’mon Zuckerberg; Help A Mommy Blogger Out!
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] Hey! Mom blogger here. Yea yea, I know what you’re thinking; there are a lot of us. There are. (You’re probably also thinking anyone can be a mom blogger, and you’re right; they can.) But we do a lot for our fellow community of moms and […]
Moms, Are We Hurting Our Families By Sharing Their Lives Online?
By Kathryn Streeter of KathrynStreeter.com As bloggers, writers or social media mavens, we want to be remembered. Often apt personal anecdotes are the best way to connect with our followers and drive a post’s popularity. They help the mind wrap around and focus on an idea. But when it comes […]
Learning How to Drink, Parent, and Other Practical Applications of a Liberal Arts Degree
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Richard Black of The Unfit Father It’s not that I didn’t enjoy college. I probably enjoyed the experience quite a bit. I say “probably” because I don’t remember much from that time in my life. In addition to a thirst for knowledge, I also developed […]
The Conversation I’m Scared to Have with My Daughter
My daughter is two-years-old. Actually, she is a few days shy of 27 months, but I think you stop counting months after their second birthday — clothing companies sure do. She is young and blissfully ignorant of the world around her (i.e. her entire world consists of Elmo, Mickey, and goldfish) but […]