Ready or Not Mom

In 2008, my boyfriend bought a house.  The 90-year-old Dutch Colonial boasted wall-to-wall carpeting, a shitty little kitchen, and wood...

"Words have power. Words are more than their dictionary definition. The history of a word matters as long as the effects of that histo...

In order to make sense of this story, it’s important to understand some basic facts about about the geography of my childhood. If you have t...

Last weekend, I piled into an SUV with several of my best running buddies. The back window boasted a Hillary sticker and the driver was a ga...

So this thing happened last Sunday that has been sitting like a brick in my stomach all week. I've been carrying it around with me and n...

When I was 15 or 16, I found myself reluctantly subjected to the gusto and flare of some motivational speaker. I have no real memory of wh...

Happy Mother's Day: A letter to my Inner 'Shit-Mom'  So you walked in to preschool last week empty-handed, behind a mom arme...