I was in a meeting last week and I looked down at my blazer (because blazers = profesh!) and noticed it was COVERED in dog hair. And maybe some dried yogurt stains. And maybe some dog hair actually IN the dried yogurt stains. And I kind of laughed and took it off and threw it…
Category: Essays
Please, let us drink wine … and make bad jokes about it
What if we aren’t secret alcoholics but instead are awkward people, desperate to make a connection?
On making priorities
Here are some shots of things I should be cleaning instead of writing this.
I am mean when I have a cold
A story told in Gifs.
The achievement gap
In which I look terrible. But also tell the truth.
Parenting: It Gets Better
I would watch this content.
IUD tttttiiiimmmmeeee
I wrote about my weight loss last week and mentioned I got an IUD and I got a lot of questions from readers about my IUD which is weird because I’m not a doctor and I thought everyone knew about IUDs? But they don’t! Maybe it’s because women who are lucky enough to have health…
I lost 20 pounds in 2017
Here’s how I did it.
I am scared of my toddler
Am I a parent, or an abused 1950’s housewife?
A Mom’s conversation with Echo Look
Moms need style advice too.
Should I have a third child?
The other night, I was reading this depressing article which basically compared a woman to an autumnal gourd. “There’s no one age where a woman turns into a pumpkin,” the fertility doctor says in the piece. And then goes on to explain there are slight declines in fertility after the age of 35, followed by…
The pillow conundrum
I’m currently washing pillows. Because I had a thought, “How long has it been since I washed our pillows?” And I didn’t know the answer. So I asked Nat. “Um, I don’t know. Have we ever washed them?” he asked. I’m sure we’ve washed them sometime in the last 10 years we’ve been together (actually,…
The Tankini Files 