Early on, I swore that my writing wouldn't be consumed by my amateur experience as a mother. Not to say that isn't worth writing about, because it is; but to...

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not. – Coco Chanel My beverages are either water, coffee, or wine. And depending on ...

It's all we can seem to think about, it's on the forefront of our minds. It's like a big grey elephant standing in the middle of our living rooms. The pandem...

Getting older is in many ways as marvelous as my young idealistic self imagined. There’s a wisdom that only experience can provide. And while some experience...

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” (Abraham Lincoln) I used to dread turning thirty. I imagined myself acting like Rachel Gre...

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Hobbies Since Becoming a Mom: Drinking cold coffee Looking for lost socks Arguing with a smaller version of myself Folding an endless supply of laundry I use...

It’s half past six o’clock in the morning. I’m sitting here in my recliner by the fire, sipping my coffee and watching my one month old son enjoying his favo...

Stilettos (aka the surface level stuff) In surviving my ninth month of pregnancy, which has still been super easy (compared to most), I’m starting to feel th...

(Disclaimer: I’ll need the mothers reading this post to bare with me through this one.) Walking my dogs around the neighborhood this evening I was thinking o...

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. (Rita Rudner) Twenty weeks. Halfway. There have been two notable changes this month, ap...

For about six weeks I knew we were pregnant before we found out the gender of this little fruit-sized human that would turn our worlds topsy-turvy. Longest. ...

A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else. Since I first discovered my unyielding adoration for British literature, I have longed to ...

We all have to start somewhere. We don’t all start at the same point. Whether you just decided that health and nutrition is important, or you are many years ...

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? Allow me to continue the tale of my third visit to the Philippines....

In a house in Texas there lived a young woman. Not a nasty, dirty, boring house, filled with clutter and a dusty smell, nor yet a quiet, bare, plain house wi...

Photo credit: Ashley Noelle Photography “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” (Virginia Woolf) In two short weeks I will be turn...

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” (Andre Gide) The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind, to say th...

“Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste whic...

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” (Albert Einstein) It is the year twenty-fifteen, which blows me away to think I was ...