I am still alive. I repeat: I am still alive. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you know this, but if you’ve been visiting this site, you may have been wondering if I fell off a cliff—probably figuratively, but maybe also literally. I didn’t, but it sure as hell felt like I did. […]
It’s September: Time to Get Back on Track!
It’s back-to-school time for the kiddos, and that means it’s time for all of us to get back to reality and back on track, too. Not that we aren’t smacked in the face with reality and responsibility every day of the year—we’re parents, after all. For most of us, summer looks a helluva lot like […]
Six Days in Suburbia…and OMG, Help!
Six days. It took just six days for me to want to run from the suburbs screaming and head back home to New York City. I stood at my new kitchen counter, my head in my hands, and tried to steady my breathing and not freak out my kids, who were 10 feet away and […]
Meeting Mom Friends: And You Thought Dating Was Hard!
I met a really nice mom at the museum a few weeks ago. My 2-year-old was playing in a photo booth on the dinosaur floor, trying to cajole me into letting him take one more $5 picture. (We’d already taken two.) And her son, who was just two months younger, joined him in the […]