In late 2011 I realized what depression looks like. While importing photos from a family trip to Disney World I came across one which showed “the real me,” the one behind the cheesy smile—the one without props or people to hide behind, without shoulders to hang off of. This is […]
By Liv of Live By Surprise [nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] If I suggested a specific race or gender was prone to be clumsy, be neurologically disordered, have lower IQs, and have more emotional and behavioral problems, I’m pretty sure I’d be strung up. And if there were suggestions that a […]
By Marcia Kester Doyle of Menopausal Mother I’m a sucker for those late night weight loss infomercials, and as a result, own a library of workout DVDs and a machine that transforms into a torturous, in-home gym. At first I enjoyed exercising on my own schedule in the privacy of […]
I’m 41. I’m in the ‘messy middle’ part of my life and I’ve had it just about up to here with my contemporaries telling me how damn great middle age is. It’s not. It sucks. There are some ancillary benefits, I suppose, amidst all this suck, but they aren’t the […]
My five year-old son is about to start a giant milestone: grade school. Mainly because of his August birthday, he will be entering junior kindergarten. I don’t doubt the decision to put my son in junior kindergarten. My husband and I, alongside our son’s preschool teachers, spent months discussing the […]
People always said raising children is hard. F*ck that! SURVIVING children is hard. I’m pretty sure I gave up on “raising” them two kids ago. The raising will come, eventually. That’s what school and grandparents are for. Right now we are focused solely on making it through each day, alive. […]
My daughter wakes every day with one purpose: to have fun, also known as destroy everything “mommydaddy” once loved and worked for years to pay for. So, of course, as grand overlord and dictator of this sticky ship known as our home, my purpose — to keep her safe, cared […]
As my husband and I were driving down the road the other day, we saw a peculiar bumper sticker on the back of a guy’s truck that read, “I ♥ My Wife.” While that’s nice and all, we found it a bizarre message for a bumper sticker and began joking that […]