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Dad Does Chores = Daughter Succeeds?
Ugh, have you read the news? If you want your daughter to be a barrier-breaking dynamo with a skyrocketing career, Daddy better be rolling up his sleeves and scrubbing those toilets, ladies. According to a new study, “if you’re hoping your daughter will aspire to be a scientist, doctor or engineer, [Dads] may want to
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All the things they said
“Oh you have such skinny arms. Such little skinny arms.” It was an off-handed comment to my daughter, while a lab tech was putting a blood pressure cuff on her arm. “Mommy, look how skinny my arms are! They’re weak and skinny.” Story is seven years old, and has asked me what it really means
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Unblinking Don Draper is my happy place
You know how some people meditate to get happy? And others medicate? Some think happy thoughts. Some go to their happy place in their mind. I’ve decided that this gif is my happy place. I can’t not laugh whenever I look at it. I give you Unblinking Don Draper. As very unhappy as he was
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Would we be happier without the internet?
I’ve often said I found “my people” online. I found a community of introverts who love conversing at a distance. I’ve learned more than I probably ever would have without the easy access of Google. I’ve made dear friends online, many of whom crossed over into being “real life” friends, although even the ones I
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Why I’d never recommend using a midwife
** TRIGGER WARNING This post is about miscarriage, babyloss, stillbirth, and the fallout from it. It is about negligent care from midwives, and more. Please do not read this if these topics may cause you emotional stress, that is never my aim. ** I can’t remember what the weather was like that day. I can’t
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If I wasn’t afraid
I’ve never read Lean In, so I can’t comment on the content at all, but I’ve seen a number of people talking about how fear holds us back from accomplishing the things we want to do, or keeps us from our dreams. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about achieving dreams, and I agree that
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Mother’s Day from an Adoptee’s Perspective
When a person is born blind, they know no other way. They don’t know the pain of having sight torn from them, they don’t miss the sense. They may have a longing, they may wonder and wish. It’s much the same for me, as an adoptee. I know nothing else, and my parents are
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Where do the words go?
Sometimes it feels like I cannot stop them from coming out — like one of those cartoons where the dam starts to leak, and there aren’t enough fingers and toes to plug the holes, and not enough bubblegum, either. From every direction, the words fly. Then sometimes, the intense pressure in my chest compresses my
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What’s going on in my head when you see me
So, I’m an introvert. I’m not shy. They’re related, but not all introverts are shy, although it’s a pretty common misconception that we are. In addition to these things, I have a lot of anxiety about being “out of my space”, which means I get anxious just going grocery shopping, taking my kids anywhere, or
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“There is great magic in you”
When Story was four, we took her to Disney World. In response to my excitement over meeting some of the characters, she said, “Mommy, you do realize those are just people in costumes, right?” She has always just known things beyond her years, and sometimes that means that the “magic” just isn’t the same with
