

B is for BOOK CLUB
Archer and I were recently invited to a Mommy and Me Book Club! Here's how it went: the host selected a children's book (There's a...


N is for NPR
I drove my son to daycare Monday and saw the other parents crowded around the TV, tears in their eyes. I hadn't seen the news yet. When I...


M is for Making Mom Friends: Matchmaking Mixers - Part 1 of Online Dating
Find your tribe! all my yogi and mom Instagrams proudly proclaim. Girl, I am not even looking for a whole tribe, just a mom who will talk...


H is for How I Learned to Love Hand-Me-Downs
Any younger sibling hates the idea of hand-me-downs. I'm not even a younger sibling, but I still got hand-me-downs myself, and it took me...


J is for . . . Judging the Starbucks mom: Part 2 of the Judgey McJudgersons Series
Do you remember the Sex and the City episode when Carrie has to write at the corner coffee shop because Aiden offered to refinish her...


F is for . . . Festivaling like a mother
Before becoming a mom I imagined getting out of the house to be difficult because you have a tiny new human to care for. I thought...


H is for . . . Hurricane: How to Help
Friends and I were discussing the current catastrophes around the nation, and world, and how helpless we feel while wanting to reach out. On


P is for Proud: Why Parents’ Can’t Stop Talking About their Kids
Today I went to a really yummy business lunch with some co-workers and we all noticed, silently and out loud, that all we could talk...


M is for . . . MRI: 5 ways to keep your cool
An MRI is not as loud as you’ve been told and does not last as long as you think. You may not even have to put on a hospital gown. Given...


G is for...Google
What did parents do before Google? I googled "how to newborn bath safe" when we brought Archer home from the hospital and then watched...