Coffee+Crumbs: Baby Driver
The first time I drove a car by myself, fresh new license tucked in my wallet and 16-year-old hands carefully …
The first time I drove a car by myself, fresh new license tucked in my wallet and 16-year-old hands carefully …
Back in my eighties childhood in northeastern Ohio, my summer consisted of bike rides to our neighborhood pool with my …
This morning I flushed another dump that wasn’t mine. I didn’t bother asking whose it was, because all three of …
I live in Georgia, where the spiders and bugs are the size of dinosaurs. Since we don’t have enough freezing …
I plod up the steps and open the door into the waiting room of the therapist’s office, coaxing my child …
Once there was a young mom. Well, young-ish. Okay, middle-ish mom with small children. Medium children. Okay, once there was …
Dropping the kids off for camp each year is a big event requiring weeks of preparation on my part to …
It’s summer and writing is hard. The space around me has shrunk to next to nothing with the kids home, …
You know those friends who keep life interesting? Everyone has them. Your fun friends, the ones with whom anything can …
Today I’m talking with Bronwyn Lea, blogger, lawyer, immigrant, and mom. She loves puns, and we get punny, and then …
“I have seeds in my balls? How do they come out? Surgery? IS IT WITH A NEEDLE?!” The sex talk …
I hope you don’t find the box in my closet. I hope no one finds it because if they do, …
(This photo is *not* from a fancy date night, but it is from our most recent date night, our annual …
Do your kids ever fight? Of course not, right? Your kids are perfect. You would never, for instance, awaken to …
Prepare the way for the Lord. – Isaiah 40:3 “Call your husband and tell him you’re having the baby today,” said …
My uncle pointed up at the twinkling lights in the dark Kentucky night sky and said, “There he goes back …
The Mudroom asked me to write about parenting kids with special needs and as I approached the article, I kept thinking …
“My friend uses a credit card to do cat eyes with her eyeliner,” she tells me as she’s getting ready …
So many times now I’ve sat in front of my little personal blog and tried to organize thoughts about current …
My husband and I recently took our three kids on a family “vacation” to Washington, D.C., where our son was …
My kids are coming home from school for the whole summer in five hours and you can see the whites …
I smash the alarm off at 6 a.m., pull a hoodie over my unfettered boobs, and knock on three doors. …
Oh how I love thee; let me count the ways. When I think about the teachers in my kids’ lives, …
Well, it must be that time of year again when all the retailers turn their collective gaze to mothers. Over …