Dear Daughter, I’m not sure how or why we got here so fast. Halfway, they say. Halfway to 18, halfway to college. Halfway until you are gone from this home as a child. NINE. Nine years of you. Nine years of a reinvented me (being mommy). Nine years of love and life and laughing —…
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Back to School & Busy Schedules: OUR fault.
A previous version of this piece was published in The Fresno Bee on March 8, 2019. Funny how September swoops in and shocks the hell out of us all every single year. Well, me anyway. I look at my calendar this month (and for the next few months) and suddenly want to crawl in bed…
When working with your spouse is… HARD.
A previous version of this piece was originally published in The Fresno Bee on June 6, 2019. Reinventing and evolving our identities as moms, wives and women can be hard. When my most recent (and most recently-beloved) TV job ended last year, I floundered. That was the job for me at this phase in my…
Mother’s Day: Do YOU.
A previous version of this piece was originally published in The Fresno Bee on May 10, 2019. If you Google ‘history of Mother’s Day’ you might find some fun facts: The very first celebration was launched at a church in 1908 by a woman named Anna Jarvis, who never married or became a mother. Anna…
Skipping Resolutions, Honoring Realizations.
A version of the following post was previously printed in The Fresno Bee on Saturday January 5, 2019, as part of the monthly ‘FAB Mom’ family lifestyle column. Hi, 2019. (Insert horn-blowing here.) Since becoming a parent almost nine years ago, each January has found me feeling less like my old young self. Some years…
2018: Everything Broke. (And why 2019 won’t.)
Arms. Legs. Computers. Hearts. Minds. Spirits. Try breaking any of them, it can hurt like hell. What goes up must come down. 2015, 2016 & 2017 were up-up-and-away-hooray in the life & career departments. In 2018, it all crashed. Oh 2018… you broke me down and broke me up. But if I may borrow wise…
Recipe for Self Care: When the inside doesn’t match the outside.
Our Thanksgiving wrap-up? Fabulous with a side of WTF. That’s what happens in life after loss. The lesson? Just because something looks absolutely beautiful and correct and right and good on the outside doesn’t necessarily mean it’s stellar on the inside. We know this applies to people. (Self Care = This year’s theme.) It also applies…
