Diary – The Tankini Files

Diary, Mother’s Day 2019

It’s Mother’s Day. I’m writing this to you because that is what I said I wanted to do — write and sleep in. I’m keeping it low-key because Mother’s Day is the New Year’s Eve for middle-aged women — we expect it to be magical and it will never, ever live up to our…

Diary, April 27: Hey! Where did I go?

Where did I go? I was really on a roll there, wasn’t I? Writing, working, momming, sending out a newsletter — I was really LEANING IN, as they say. (Actually, do they say that anymore or do we all hate Sheryl Sandberg now? I am out of the outrage loop!) In fact, I’m am out…

Diary, Nov. 25th: (Waffle) Church

Ah, church. We finally went today. I’ve been trying to go — really, I have — but to leave the house on the weekend with two little kids to make them do something we frankly really don’t want to do seemed like an impossible task. It’s hard enough to get out of the house to…

Diary, Sept. 18: A little (a lot) overwhelmed

Hello friends. I’m sorry i haven’t written in a bit. Things have been … extra… as the kids say. Work reorg (huge). New school year. Family obligations. Weekend travel. Swim lessons. Many, many days off for the kiddos due to Jewish holidays (not blaming you, my Jewish friends, but could you move the major holidays…

Diary, August 26th: Goodbye summer

We’ve reached the wild point of summer; things always seem slightly feral at this point of the year. Even the children are weedy. Their hair (although we just cut it) is long and wild; I feel like I’m cutting their fingernails every other day. Their summer clothes I bought 4 months ago are tight and…