By Jill Morgenstern of Do Try This at Home Baby on Board signs became popular in the mid eighties as a way to warn other drivers. But warn them of what? I don’t want to hit or damage any car, whether or not it contains a baby. I drive as conscientiously […]
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Natasha Daniels of Anxious Toddlers I sometimes wish I could take my children and live in a bubble – immune to the violence, hatred and tragedies our world experiences. Although living in a bubble is tempting, we would also miss out on the wonderful sounds, smells […]
My dog died last night. CORRECTION: I put my dog down last night. Or, rather, I granted the veterinarian permission to put her down last night. It all started earlier last week when I noticed she was throwing up a lot. A lot more than usual, anyway. She and my […]
The fasten seat belt light is on. We are settling down and beginning to taxi to the runway. And just as I get comfortable and begin to close my peaceful, three-yr-old-less traveling eyes, there it goes: blood-curdling screaming from a little girl who is just shy of “terribly two.” People […]
Through my window I see a scattered array of lines on the beach. Scattered lines and circles throughout the world. A colossal rim that engulfs the ocean, like a cell swallowing a parasite in endocytosis. The rocks around the shore generously hug the wide, wide waters, a warm, open mother […]
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 […]
The long, winter months are settling in, which means so are the added pounds. Why not lose a little weight laughing your ass off at the 10 funniest people on Facebook last week? 1. Tastes like grass and despair. [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/tonihammerwriter/posts/712574738842069/” width=”550″/] * 2. That’s right. Pap smears are now […]
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 […]