Photo credit: iStock.com/grinvalds This is an awesome time of year to be reminded that perfect sucks. Perfect is boring, stressful, generally unattainable, always unsustainable, and, frankly, not that much fun! You certainly don’t need my permission, but let me at least play cheerleader for this concept! Drop the idealist vision of holidays. Drop
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Mother’s Day as a mom after your own mother is gone is always bittersweet. While I am overjoyed at the marvel of our two amazing girls, the loss is also deeply acute on Mother’s Day. I try to take time on this day to really feel the wide range of emotions: wonder at the miracle
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With Thanksgiving weekend behind us but the “marathon at a sprint’s pace” of the holiday season just beginning, I found myself lying awake at 3am on Monday with the self-inflicted psychic weight of un-done to-do’s, existential wonderings, fears, lists of gifts to be bought, parenting dilemmas, carpools and logistics, emails to be sent, making sure
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