Featured Essays
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- Save the Handwritten Notes!
- The Summer of De-Cluttering (It’s Okay to Talk to Your Sweaters)
- Of Bubbe and Bubble Gum
- The Misunderstood Exclamation Mark
- I Feel Better About My Whole Life When I Shop at Trader Joe’s
- What I Wore The Night I Met My Husband
- Why I Became A Sports Fan
- Of Mothers Mahjongg and More
- A Mother’s Instinct
- The Not At All Wicked Stepmothers That I Never Wanted But Am So Glad I Have
- Thank You For Telling Me About Resting Bitch Face
- Put on a Little Lipstick
- My Life As A Movie
- My Former Stint As A Short Order Cook
- I’d Rather Live Downstairs at Downton
- Embrace the Sweet and the Salty
- An Ode to Sign Up Genius, TeamSnap and Evite
- It’s Going Really Fast…And It’s Okay
- Secrets of A Lifelong People Watcher
- What’s Up With The Humble Brag?
- I Love My Chocolate Chip Cookies. Here’s Why.
- The Power of The Camp Song
- Wheel’s Lift Up, Sh*t Hits Fan
- How I Found KInd
- Getting Dumped…By Our Nannies
- What I Wished We Talked About More
- Who’s Going To Watch My Kids?
- My Life Is On My Car
- The Surprising “Mother Figure” I Didn’t Know I Needed
- Count The Freckles
- Wear A Freaking Coat!
- Happy Birthday To Us
- If These Dishes Could Talk
- What I Did on My Summer Vacation
- Generation Camp
- Back Into My Mother’s Closet
- Thank You Yoga – You Rock!
- You Can Call Me Bossy
- Confession: I’m A Shopping Bag Addict
- A New Normalcy
- The Evolution of an Outfit
- Why It’s Good for Kids to be Disappointed (Sometimes)
- The Snowman’s True Identity
- These Plans Were Made to be Broken
- Freeze Them Now
- Real Life Mergers
- The Socially Networked Birthday
- The Mommy Mediator
- Adventures in Mom Dating
- We’re Walking, We’re Walking….The College Tour
- A Royal Case of Covid
- XOXO
- I See the Ghost of My Mother When I Catch A Glimpse of Myself in the Mirror
- I Started Doing More Once I Quit Writing To-Dos
- Do My Friends Wear Pants?
- All the Things I Wish I Did for My Son Over the Last 18 Years
- Happy Vax-giving
- Lost (But Realized) In the Flood
- Who Am I Saving This Stuff for Anyway?
- Old Reliable
- I Joined A Cult
- The Happy Scarf
- The Passover Macaroons Keep the Memories of my Family Alive
- My Screensaver Is a Family Time Capsule and I’m Never Changing It
- Corona Virus is Sparking A Creative Renaissance
- I’m Basically My Son’s Unpaid Uber Driver
- Seeking My Late Mom’s Approval at My Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah
- The One Thing I Never Expected From My Kids
- Why I Miss BabyGap
- When Does Our “Real Life” Begin?
- Why I Cried At Your Bar Mitzvah