Don't Talk to Strangers 2.0

CEO — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:14:56 -0700

The news from Cleveland last week was sickening on so many levels. My heart breaks for those three women, not only for what they endured these last ten years, but for what they lost, as well. Your late teens through your late twenties are some of the best years of your life. To be robbed of those years for doing nothing more than getting in the wrong car is so devastatingly sad.

She's Turning Eleven!

CEO — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:36:00 -0700

My daughter is turning eleven next week. Let me just say that again, because I’m not really sure that I wrote that right. My daughter is turning ELEVEN next week. Yup. It’s right. Let’s put aside the fact that I can’t believe I’m old enough to have an eleven year-old, and let’s focus on what this means. Namely, that my daughter is turning ELEVEN.

Pokemon No More!

CEO — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:40:47 -0700

There are some boys who come out of the womb wearing a sports jersey and holding a beer mug. These boys love sports - watching them, playing them, talking about them, thinking about them.

What Happens When Life is PG-13?

CEO — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:34:47 -0700

This Old House

CEO — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:13:40 -0700

My parents lived in the same house for my whole childhood. By the time they got divorced, I was in my twenties, in law school, and my brother was in college. Neither of my parents needed a house at that point, so they sold it and moved into separate apartments.

Is Picky Eating Hereditary?

CEO — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:47:39 -0700

No matter how many times I write about it, I always find myself coming back to the subject of my kids and their pickiness when it comes to food. I guess it’s not such a shocker that the topic is always on my mind; I do have to feed them every single day, and coming up with ideas for what to make never gets any easier.

Too Much Stuff!

CEO — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:39:42 -0700

My husband and I moved into our current home not quite thirteen years ago. About two weeks afterwards, some faulty electrical wiring caused a fire that destroyed a good chunk of the house. Luckily, nobody was hurt, and we didn’t lose anything that couldn’t be replaced. Photos, videos and keepsakes were all spared.

Momnesia

CEO — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:51:05 -0700

Every November, I come down with a terrible case of momnesia.

The Tragedy of the Discontinued Shorts

CEO — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:57:13 -0800

Dear Person At Land’s End Who Decides Which Items to Discontinue,

I’m going to keep this friendly, because I’m hoping that you’ll help me out here. I’m sure that you have really great kids. The kind of kids who are adorable and polite and look like they stepped out of… well, a Land’s End catalogue. (I was totally going to say a J. Crew catalogue but then I was all, duh!)

Getting Off the Guilt Train

CEO — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:22:33 -0800

Aside from love, I think that guilt is probably the strongest, most universal emotion that parents experience. We feel guilty from the time our babies are born, about everything: for not breastfeeding long enough, for leaving them on a Saturday morning to go to the gym, for going back to work, for letting them watch TV, for keeping them in a wet diaper for too long, and on and on and on.