Ever since Kiri Westby published her controversial and totally not anonymous piece “Confessions of a Pothead Mom” last week I’ve gotten many a text/DM/FB message/email from someone asking “Be honest — are you the HuffPo Pothead Mom?” I’m not, of course, Kiri Westby is — but the fact that so many people were wondering if I had written the post… Read more →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
Finishing The Unfinished: A Creative Footnote to #CutYourCrap
In this week’s installment of Cut Your Crap, in an attempt to help get things moving for those folks feeling a pit constipated in their Spring Cleaning, I shared a few tips from Karen Kingston’s “Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui” one of which was to evict anything unfinished from your home. It’s the part of Spring Cleaning/Crap Cutting/Clutter clearing… Read more →
It’s Not Crazy to Question Vaccines, but Here’s Why I Choose To Vaccinate, and I Think You Should Too.
Me (center) advocating on Capitol Hill for Shot@Life, flanked by Legislative Aide to Senator Feinstein Megan Thompson (left), and author of The Thinking Person’s Guide To Autism Shannon Des Roches Rosa (right). [I haven’t had a chance to tell you guys yet about my recent trip to D.C., what brought me there, or how revelatory it was for me, but… Read more →
Depression Is My Sister Wife
This morning, Dee woke up early and jumped in to our bed. “Can we play Daddy?” she asked, as Scott rolled over and squeezed his eyes shut tighter. “You know what, Baby?” I cooed in her ear, “Daddy needs a little more rest. Should we go play in the living room? Or watch a show in bed?” She gave me a… Read more →
There Is Beauty In Acceptance: “Bearded Lady” Harnaam Kaur Sets Stunning Example
Harnaam Kaur is a 23-year-old woman living in England. Like many women (between 10-20% of those of childbearing age), Kaur suffers from PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) which has been known to cause excessive hair growth in some patients. In Harnaam’s case, her PCOS meant that with puberty came an unexpected development … she began to grow a beard. After years… Read more →
Have You Taken A Good Look Around Your Child’s Classroom Lately?
This past fall, my Delilah started attending public school here in Los Angeles. On the first day, her teacher sent home a note welcoming everyone to her classroom and letting us as parents know what was provided within the school’s budget, and what was not. For example, photocopies were not covered. The teachers at Delilah’s school are asked to pay… Read more →
Wunderkind Lost
I was going to be really important and famous and rich by 30. In fact, I had an age corresponding to each and every goal on my mental list. I was going to be a force to be reckoned with, you know? The person by which my high school classmates would measure their own successes. But I was going to be… Read more →
Turn Turn Turn
It’s amazing really how fast time goes. And with every new year comes new ideals about how we’re going to change our lives for the better. The thing is as I’ve gotten older those ideals because actions more and more. Not all of them. Never all of them. But some of them. Sometimes. Because it means more. There’s more at stake. Sometimes… Read more →
“Last Week [She] Was Killed By Her Husband”
A few days ago I got one of those emails you never want to get. One of those emails that tell you that someone is dead who had so much life left to live. Chris Keith, a fellow blogger, a fellow mom, a fellow human being, had been shot dead alongside the oldest of her four children before the gunman,… Read more →
Body Image, Body Reality, And The Ability To Alter It
{via} My relationship with my body has always been pretty complicated. I remember as early as elementary school soccer practice looking at the other girls on the team and thinking they had better nicer looking legs than I did. By Jr. High I had come to full-blown despise the sight of my legs, which conveniently coincided with the grunge-movement’s popularizing… Read more →