Late last summer, I had lunch with a friend of mine…she is a mom, a clinical psychologist and an overall amazing person. We talked about everything and at the very end as we were wrapping up, I mentioned something that had totally confounded me. I went on to explain that at the very moment I…
Dating My Children
Its hard for me to write about my children in such a public fashion. Mostly because I feel like their own struggles with the divorce are theirs and theirs alone…not to be shared. They didn’t ask for this and yet they are the most effected of all. Still, I am their mother and what they…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Me
It has taken me several days to write this first post of 2017 because once I put pen to paper, I plan to hold myself accountable to these statements for the next 361 days, at the very least. I spent the last moments of 2016 in amazing chaos — 5 kids screaming in anticipation of the…
For the Yeasayer
One of my favorite modern day muses, Seth Godin, recently did a short post on his blog about being a yeasayer. He writes….” yeasayer is the opposite of the naysayer, of course. This is the person who will find ten reasons why you should try something. The one who will embrace the possibility of better. The colleague…