Oh the stories they will tell their therapists — Every night after my younger son goes to sleep, I take a picture of him. Every. Single. Night. I have a massive collection of these sleeping photos. …

And I should be studied — I can relate to Ellie from The Last Of Us. I am Ellie. My blood needs to be drawn and sent to labs across the globe. I should be studied and drugs should be made containing my T cells, whatever those are. You see, I am indestructible. My younger son…

Lesson learned too late — Note: This piece was accidentally published for a moment under @Rosalie Berg’s unaffiliated stories. But it was meant for Sweary Mommy — she swears to God! With Easter fast approaching, and Laurel B. Miller’s irresistible call for articles about parenting fails, this feels like the perfect opportunity to share a…

Working on my airplane figure — I have a long flight coming up and it recently dawned on me that I am not in the best airplane shape of my life. So, I’ve decided to start a rigorous airplane boot camp to fine tune my body. In preparation for the grueling 12-hours of sitting and stuffing…

The seven words that make me want to throw up in my mouth — A dear friend recently called and we shared a few laughs. The topic was going back to work. My friend, who lives in the Bay Area, has some major home renovations coming up that she’s nervous about given the exorbitant costs in her area for home repairs of any scale…

And I’m not going back — It wasn’t something that we planned. It wasn’t even something we discussed. It was something that just came to be. Sometimes seismic shifts happen along the journey of parenting that you can’t anticipate or understand. …

Even at work — I learned a valuable lesson about the corporate world fairly late in my career. I was writing a press release for a former boss roughly six years ago. I was not new to the job or new to writing press releases. He took one look and told me to remove…

It was a good day* — *Ice Cube, baby My kids recently had a theme week at school. Yay! One of the themes was “Future You Day.” My kids can’t even decide on what color socks to wear on a given day, but sure, we’ll engineer a career for them. “Okay boys, what do you want…

Sorry husband, not the pro football team — Well, Netflix, you’ve done it again. You’ve managed to create — or at least purchase the rights to not one, but two Vikings saga-drama-glaringly- historically-inaccurate series! I accidentally started to watch them simultaneously, not realizing they were different shows. Sure, I thought it odd that the main character looked a…