Taylor L.
Before You Go: To My Firstborn Entering Kindergarten
We all know them, the familiar phrases one hears on repeat in those fragile early months of new motherhood. Well meaning folks coming off a full night's sleep who will smile at you in...
Pocket Check: Viewing Life Through the Lens of Your Kid’s Pockets
I began with the intention of writing about my feeble attempts to explain the realities of Alzheimer's disease, in all its predictable chaos, to my son. This subject has quickly become painfully relevant in...
Raising My Sons as Feminists
March has been officially designated by the U.N. as Women's History Month. It is a short period of time set aside for us to recognize the enormous contributions and struggles of over half the...
Life in 2nd Place: A Letter of Apology to My Second Born
Hey Kiddo,
It's hard to believe you're turning three this month, albeit with decidedly less fanfare than your older brother's over the top third birthday spectacle, absurdly dubbed 'R's Robot Romp.' But that's been the...
The Year I Took Care of Me: What Happened After a Year Dedicated to...
I did it friends! This last year I took care of ME!
A year ago, one of my most circulated posts to date began making the rounds on the interwebs. Before my first coffee warm...
‘Mommy, Why Do People Shoot Kids?’
'Mommy, why do people shoot kids?' We were sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. There was the usual driving game of guessing animal sounds and hearing about the giant slug he found at school,...
All Hail Halloween: Four Reasons Why It’s the Best Holiday of Them All
Allow this unapologetic enthusiast to share a fervent ode to my great and undying love* for Halloween!
Why, you might ask? I mean if there really even needs to be another reason besides pilfering the...
Which Game of Thrones Mom are You? (Spoiler Alert)
This season may be over, but we're not done ugly crying yet. #winterishereyall It's been just a few days since this season of GOT's finale, full of shockingly big moments, some of which have...
Childhood-Level Up (The Milestones I Didn’t Know I Was Waiting to Happen)
Around this time last year I was lamenting about the end of my son's early childhood. I was so so sad. I knew how much I was going to miss carrying him around with...
The Agnostic Mom’s Guide to the ‘Death’ Talk: Trying to Explain the Unexplainable
Ok, so this isn't really a guide. It's more accurately described as the search for quietude in the unknown when you're supposed to be the one with all the answers.
The truth is, I didn't...