I just published a post on Babble.com about why I can’t lie to my son about Santa anymore (after this year). It’s a hot topic, for sure, so I thought I’d repost a similar essay I wrote in 2010. The same feelings hold true for me now, with the exception that this year, I did [...]
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My post from last week, “Figuring Out How to Do It” has been accepted and syndicated on BlogHer today. If you don’t know much about BlogHer, it’s a great site that helps give female writers exposure while exploring all kinds of issues that relate to the modern woman. They also have a yearly conference for [...]
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1. For people to take their Christmas decorations down. I keep seeing glittering hearts tucked inside Christmas wreaths, or withering red bows hanging off of iron banisters. It’s over, people. Santa is not coming back. 2. Chocolate from Philadelphia’s own John and Kira’s. (Nudge, nudge, Husband.) 3. For my daughter’s molars to break through so [...]
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Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and life. One of my favorite things to teach is the Civil Rights Movement. While I am often brought to tears by the brutality of so many racist crimes in America, I am also similarly moved and inspired by the stories of nonviolent protesters, who endured beatings [...]
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Superwoman style…. DON’T 1. Don’t make a big deal about it. Shun all parties and prix fix New Year’s meals. Parties are filled with drunk, raucous people who you probably don’t like. Inevitably, people will start dirty dancing, and it may take you a whole year to recover from witnessing the spankings. As far as [...]
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I think I have found Christmas. Oh, and I’ve also rescued Jesus. The story of Mary and Joseph is one I have heard and enjoyed from the time I was a child. I felt for their struggle to find a warm and welcoming place far from home, the nervousness and excitement of the new baby [...]
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For my very understanding husband– (To the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed-Reindeer”) Jana the freshest blogger, had a very scary scream And if you ever heard it, you would know her house was not clean. All of the other mothers seemed to keep their voices low. They never knew that Jana sometimes let her temper [...]
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Thanksgiving is this week, and it’s easily become my favorite holiday. It’s made of all the most important elements: family, often friends, gathered around a table over delicious food and wine. (Food. Wine. Good conversation with the people you love. Gratitude. Isn’t this the best that life has to offer?) Thanksgiving doesn’t contain the same [...]
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Before children: After children: Happy Halloween from the metamorphosing couple. Tweet This Post
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The fourth of July has become, for me, a fabulously simple weekend, fabulous because it’s three whole days, and simple because I just stay around the house. See, I have this problem? With weekends? This problem where I put a lot of pressure on them? To be fabulous? When Mr. B was born, I used [...]
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