What happened when a boy sent my daughter a horrid text message
My oldest child, Grace, is nearly 15. While she is growing into a beautiful young woman, she is still a child and even though I trust her, I do check…
My family of 10 had COVID and here’s what helped us
This past month I contracted COVID during a work event from a vaccinated individual. As it happens with most families, I passed it onto my entire family, which meant all…
No, I will not call breastfeeding “chestfeeding”
Update 8/13/21: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has caved and will now call breastfeeding, "chestfeeding" and refer to women as “human milk-feeding individuals.” Hard pass. Honestly, it's offense that women are…
Moms, don’t doubt your calling
One more flight. My body is aching to hold my kids and to have them crawl all over me. I’ve been gone all week. Traveling. Speaking. Working. It’s work. But…
I want to be called a woman, not a “birthing person”
I have eight children, seven of whom I've given birth to myself. I'm a woman and have the necessary reproductive organs to grow a child inside my womb and then…
The Mommy Wine Culture Needs to Go
When does a joke about moms drinking to get through motherhood - and the current coronavirus pandemic - cross the line? Is it when her friends are on the verge…
Obesity is Not Healthy and “Body Positivity” Won’t Change That
I haven’t been “skinny” since I was a small child struggling with asthma in the 80s and early 90s. I don’t come from a family of petite people. No one…
Part I: Walking Through Darkness: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
The day I found out I was pregnant with Grace, I don’t remember being happy. I remember being terrified. Doug and I had only been married for a few months…
Part II: Walking Through Darkness: My Journey with Postpartum Depression
Read Part I of my journey with postpartum depression here. A Brief Respite Doug was a teacher and had taken some time off after Grace was born, but was now…
Grace Upon Grace
My baby girl is 14 today. This girl changed my life. After she was born, I suffered from terrible postpartum depression/psychosis the first year of her life. I didn’t know how to…
