Raising Daughters

I stood in the room holding my daughter's hands as the dentist took his long, menacing needle and injected medication into her delicate, juvenile gums. Tears were escaping her beautiful blue eyes. Moans of pain and fear and anxiety came out in a muffled whimper that I am sure I will never forget. All in [...]

I Have to Stop Comparing Myself to Others I am sitting in my house with my beagle, Piper, snoring at my feet. I have never been so jealous of a dog in my life. Fresh off another night of no sleep due to a week long battle with what has now been diagnosed as severe [...]

It hit like a kick in the head. The death of Luke Perry, also known as the first fantastical love of my life, the bad boy that taught me that bad boys can be sexy as hell and the star I would never meet that would always be on my bucket list. Now he is [...]

I was sitting in a restaurant the other day with a friend and noticed an older woman dining alone. Maybe in her late 60's, finger empty of a wedding ring; she sipped her coffee and alternated between noticing families that came into the restaurant and staring blankly outside. My heart, for some reason, reached out [...]

November is National Adoption Month, so I felt it a good time to talk about, well, adoptions! I feel this should be prefaced with the fact that I personally have no real ties to adoption. I was not adopted. My parents never adopted any kids. In fact, when looking at my family, the closest adoption [...]

I am a mom. It defines me, it drives me and it inspires me to be and do better everyday. I do all the things I am not supposed to. I put my kids first, consider them to be my best friends and drop anything I have planned in a moment so that they can [...]

Football season has started but for those who can't attend games, these homegate ideas will liven the experience for the whole family. I didn't grow up in a football loving family. We never turned on Sunday night football, and I don't think I ever went to a game with my parents or can recall them even [...]