Welcome to Let’s Talk About It Tuesday — a safe space for minor grievances, major overreactions, and everything in between. Here’s what’s been grinding my gears the most this week: 1. Pickup Chaos:I cannot stand […]
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Hello from the soccer sidelines
Hello from the soccer sidelines. I started writing this post at a tournament this weekend — the kind where the folding chair sinks into the grass, the coffee goes cold too soon, and the parents […]
The Blog is back
The internet is overflowing with empowering messages for women in midlife. Scroll for two minutes and you’ll find slogans about “owning your feelings,” memes that insist you shouldn’t give a damn about anyone else’s opinion, […]
More than the carpool line
As a middle-aged mama, I hear it all the time—women saying things like, “I can’t do this,” or “That’s not what people our age do.” Somewhere along the way, we started believing that new dreams […]
From Cowardice to Courage: A Journey of Self-Reclamation
My youngest has an extraordinary ability to shift from nervous to fearless. Even when she stumbles, she pushes through the embarrassment and shares her feelings with a vulnerability so unguarded, it overwhelms me. I think […]
The Forty Files 