<rant> Listen, I get it. You don’t like kids. You don’t love them noising up your restaurants or your airplanes or your public spaces in general. You didn’t choose them, so why should they affect your life so loudly? I completely understand. The thing is, I’m...

I stood at the kitchen sink sobbing at 2am.   I hate going to bed with a dirty kitchen and my kid just fell asleep. Nothing was accomplished today.  I folded clothes and washed dishes and kept my daughter out of my husband’s hair while he was working...

I don’t read self-help books. I find them pedantic and patronizing. Same goes for memoirs, generally. But the other books weren’t helping and WHATAKNOW?!?

I hope that I will raise my children to know your religion. YOURS. ALL OF YOURS. I hope that I will raise them to love people and to be kind and gracious. I hope that they will forgive and ask to be forgiven. I hope that they will accept those with differences and lift those who struggle. I hope that they find faith.

Just kidding. I love your mommy blog, I just hate when it tricks me into thinking it cares about me when really it’s just trying to sell me something. Be authentic and stop taking advantage of your community or really, fuck your mommy blog.

  Remember the Funny Pages?  Or maybe a better question: Remember newspapers?!  Don't answer that, for the love of god.   My grandfather used to love the comic strip “Pluggers”.  It is a snarky, self-deprecating peek into the life of the Plugger -- broadly-brushed as...