Redefining the "Stay-at-Home-Mom"
Alright ladies, here are your choices:HousewifeHomemakerStay-at-home-momOr the ever ambitious sounding-Unemployed.Awesome… It seems the importance of any career with children somehow gets downplayed...
View Article*Forever Changed"
On the steering wheel, my husband’s knuckles shown white. I leaned forward to watch the pink dawn illuminate the Cincinnati skyline. He glanced over. “May I speed?” I winced and...
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Tiny and Fragile and Precious and Dear
If there is anything we have learned from the last week, it is that life can be tiny and fragile and precious and dear. There is no guarantee that we will get our Someday. Perhaps the greatest monument...
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What Would Betty Friedan Say about the "Lean In" Debate?
The contractions started at 7,000 feet. I was on a plane from San Francisco to Chicago to pitch a new client for our advertising agency. Twenty-three weeks pregnant with my second child, I had just...
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Don't mess with Mama (Blogging my book idea)
I've had a book idea rummaging around in my head for about a year now. I even went so far as to create a book proposal (grueling work!) and send it to four Christian literary agents. The two agents...
View ArticleHopes for Myself as a Mother
It’s an odd place to get parenting advice, but the best story regarding mothering I ever heard was from Penn Jillette on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF. Penn talked about how his mother’s philosophy was that...
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Mom Torture: Surviving the Dark Spots of Mothering
Mom torture n. 1 emotional pain experienced by a woman when her child is in distress 2 a strategy used to weaken a mother's resolve in regard to her own beliefs and practices 3 a primary cause of...
View ArticleThe Mothering Job - Yes, the Mom Holiday is Over but Shouldn't Everyday be...
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View ArticleWhy I Blog, To Celebrate the Simple Every Day, One Story At A Time
After my daughter Zoe was diagnosed, I would find myself in the middle of the night at my bookcase searching for the right book. I had filled more than two shelves, overflowing with books about...
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Living a One-Armed Life
I did not lose an arm. I kinda lost an arm. It's holding a baby and has left me with one arm available to complete every task, alone.I joked with my husband when I had my son about my one armed life....
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