Buy Yourself Flowers: 11 Acts of Self Romance

I could never be the main female character in a 17th-century romance novel because a farmhand of my estate would find my lifeless body out…

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5 Steps to Giving Yourself Grace

My control issues have a nasty habit of popping up like a horrifying vintage jack-in-the-box at the most inconvenient times. Overachievers can relate and likely…

Feeling Like a Bad Mom? Read This.

My toddler flailed her arms majestically as an uncoordinated horde of Central Park pigeons, slipping on the water she’d dumped on the kitchen floor before…

7 Funny New Years Resolutions I Won’t Do

3…2….1! Happy New Year! And surprise, I’m still the antisocial, brooding writer I was last year! However, there is a magical quality in ringing in…

11 Ways to Make Life the Opposite of Stressful

My car breaking down on the thruway on Christmas Eve with a toddler put a new perspective on holiday stress. But as with all things,…

The Best Way to Spread Christmas Cheer

(Tune of The Christmas Song) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Old aunt nitpicking your clothes. Looking for an exit, with none remotely in sight.…

7 Reasons to Love Tarot

The depths a person dives into with burnout would make James Cameron jealous. But since the average working mom, including me, can’t invest in a…