Stay home, stay safe. Alone, together. Stop the spread. SHUT.UP. I say this with deep concern and love. TRULY. It’s no secret I don’t write here much anymore… mostly because I’m too busy doing real things with my daughters these days. Things like: Supplement-teaching daily — because distance-learning is inane, unnecessary and ineffective (despite what…
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Social Media Rules for Mental Health. (Because I said so.)
A previous version of this post was published to Mom.com on October 9, 2020. “Why aren’t you on social media that much anymore?” friends and colleagues now ask me.”Mental health,” I reply. They instantly get it. Prior to 2017, I used to throw around the words “mental health” as a respectful yet passive casual catchphrase…
10 Years of Mom Blog. (Am I pregnant again?)
Ten years. One hundred and twenty months. Five hundred and twenty weeks. Three thousand, six hundred and fifty days. Eighty seven thousand, six hundred hours. Five million and two hundred fifty-six thousand minutes. (Did I do that math right? Blame distance learning.) To be less poetic about it: I’ve officially been a mom — and…
Calm the kids by faking it, tell the truth when it counts.
The following post was previously published in The Fresno Bee on Saturday, September 12, 2020. “We have to get out of here today,” my sister buzzed around in her Bass Lake cabin kitchen while our kids played and dogs ran around outside. It was around 8:30am. Her husband was already making neighborhood rounds to help a 90+…
Parents Pledge for In-Person Anything? (I will.)
Our first week of ‘distance-learning’ school here is done. Completed. I’m shamelessly glad it’s over. I’m beyond proud of my little ladies who are handling it. I’m equally relieved and irate. Confused? Stay with me. If you didn’t see my impromptu Facebook LIVE rant on my personal profile last week calling ‘b—$hit’ on most everything…
Normal life cancelled? Get a puppy.
A previous version of this post was published in The Fresno Bee on Sunday August 9, 2020. It’s been a summer all right. Haven’t posted here in about a month (more!) thanks to most folks losing their brains and all previously-functioning reasoning skills. Spring, Easter, Summer and now ‘Back to School’ season were shamefully cancelled…
Parent in real life (and shut up on social media)?
A previous version of this post was published on June 5, 2020 in The Fresno Bee. Time to parent in real life & shut up on social media? YUP. Recent current events are proving to be too much — mentally, emotionally, physically. Los Angeles (aka: the place where so many of my professional and personal…
