Watch this, please. From beginning to end. Last night, I finished watching the series Dead to Me. I won’t spoil anything for you except to say, the ending is brilliant. It had me thinking a great deal about what it is to be a true friend. A tried and true friend, that is. I’ve often…

According to the book Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life, 40% of the time people call out from work, they are faking it. Last Friday, I was among the honest 60% who called out to care for my sick daughter. I was ordered to lay by her side and not…

I’m dedicating this blog post to the miscellaneous stuff on my mind lately. Here goes my listicle. 1. Next Sunday is my daughter’s 8th birthday party. I’m not sure why birthday party planning is on par with wedding planning for me. Somehow it is. However, I will say that this go-around, my husband has taken…

I’m mourning the slow passing of my boyfriend. This is what my real boyfriend (aka my husband) calls my dead body pillow. I’ll explain. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I could not get in a comfortable sleeping position, which is not a shock to most pregnant women. Preggos aren’t supposed to sleep on…

Over the past couple of weeks, the cold/ear infection fairy spread her magic to our household and disappeared just in time for … you guessed it … Back to School Time! Is anyone else excited? While I love summertime, except for the extreme heat and resulting thigh chafing, nothing beats Back to School season. Pumpkin…

No, you are not viewing a page from an anatomy textbook. This contraption is what was placed on my daughter’s teeth this week. Braces will follow. As I’ve grown used to the many dollar signs this will entail, I keep telling myself it will all be worth it. I never wore braces as a kid,…

I don’t hate anything except for deviled eggs. However, if I had a short list of things I don’t particularly enjoy, cats would be on the list. Despite this fact about myself, I married a cat man. My husband is a cat man. I am a dog mom. I’ll say it, again, for those in…

I fell into a one and a half-day binge watch of Hacks. Have you seen this? Now in its second season, Hacks spotlights a female comedienne of a certain wonderful age as she ends her years’ long Vegas residency. She is tricked into hiring a down-on-her-luck twenty-something TV writer after a scandal sidelines her own…

More than two years post-pandemic, the prospect of flying to Florida to visit with my Mamasita excited me so much. My daughter and I were planning to spend nine days with her, which were much-needed following a wacky school year, work overwhelm, and a general need to spend time with my mom due to her…

I remember my 10th grade Biology teacher saying (I’m paraphrasing, as it’s been nearly 30 years.): If a girl is smart, she’ll never get pregnant. This coming from a woman of three sons, yet the message was clear – Dumb girls got pregnant. Don’t be a dumb girl. So, I managed to survive my teen…