The Perfect Holiday #Giveaway For Baseball & Softball Coaches
You know how when you marry a person, you also marry that person’s quirks and passions and annoying habits? Like I’m completely incapable of having a conversation before 7am, yet my husband put a ring...
View ArticleListen To Your Mother: 2016 Pittsburgh Auditions
Some people look at the New Year as a blank slate, ready to write their own story. I am one of those people. I love the symbolic vat of opportunity that a new beginning brings, and this year, that vat...
View ArticleSo You Want a Gun
Some say that death and taxes are the only absolutes in life, but my pelvic floor wants to weigh in on this. I never have to pee as badly as when I’m balancing milk on one hip, a toddler on the other,...
View ArticleI’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!
Women waste too much time scrutinizing the crow’s feet at the corners of our eyes. We’re also quite good at making ourselves feel guilty when we don’t measure up to the one-size-fits-all expectations...
View ArticleLight In the Window
My paternal Grandmother and I weren’t particularly close. Situation and proximity saw to that; she enjoyed a much more fulfilling relationship with my cousins. As a child, that was hard to swallow. She...
View ArticleWhat Has Life Taught Me That Nobody Else Has Learned
The last time I took a creative writing class, I was at an uncomfortable metal desk as a sophomore in high school. After that, everything became very processed and less about the craft and more about...
View ArticleWhy You Should Always Do Your Laundry Before Going to the Doctor’s
I hadn’t seen my family practitioner since before I got pregnant with my son in 2009. My gynecologist was on speed dial, but my family doc and I had grown apart because I’m a user and didn’t need her....
View ArticleTerrified, Jumps Anyway
BEGINNINGS: Beginning a career at the age of 22 is a daunting task for anyone, but when your subordinates are only a couple years your junior, and when those subordinates are actually students in your...
View ArticleDiscipline. I Have None.
In 250 words or less, write about a time when sheer discipline made you continue to do something. I hate this prompt; it exposes my biggest weakness: I have zero discipline. (And 250 words or...
View ArticleThe New Face of Romance
Our first true love is butterfly wings beating against our brain, clouding good judgement and all reason. An all-consuming, borderline obsession coupled with a physical ache that plagues us when...
View ArticleListen to Your Mother Pittsburgh tickets on sale now!
Friday, May 6, 2016 8pm Carnegie Lecture Hall in the Carnegie Public Library / Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Me + you + our incredible 2016 cast + about 700 other people = a...
View ArticleWe All Survived
On Friday night, I babysat four kids under the age of four in order to give my best friend a much-deserved night out. Since two of the kiddos were mine, I was feeling confident I could manage. No, I...
View ArticleThe Road to the White House is Paved with YESes
If we live within five miles of one another, perhaps you heard a sound reminiscent of pigs squealing in delight coming from my house late Tuesday evening, as it was then that I formally accepted an...
View ArticleMy Afternoon with the First Lady
As a member of the POPSUGAR Select network, and by the grace of baby Jesus, I was one of about 150 writers invited to the White House to participate in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move event....
View ArticleMe, Too
You feel not good enough Like all of your kids’ bad traits come from your side And you’re nowhere near as patient as you should be, showing more restraint with strangers than with your own family. Me,...
View ArticleMother’s Day Giveaway!
Fact: free stuff makes Moms happy. And any lady who has willingly wiped another person’s butt deserves to be happy, right? As a mother myself, I know how important it is to take a break from parenting...
View ArticleThis Is Why I Write
Like many of you, I spent a lot of time with family at Easter. Over drinks and completely out of nowhere, my aunt posed the question: why do you share so much of your personal life with perfect...
View ArticleMy Baby is Two!
Insurance company woes forced me to part ways with the doctors that delivered my girls, and in a cruel twist of fate, my last appointment with them coincided with my youngest’s birthday. These two...
View ArticleWinner, Winner Evolution Grille Dinner! (and tons of other great stuff)
If your first name is Carly and your last name is Williams you are the official Mega Mother’s Day Giveaway WEEEEEEEENER! Congrats, Carly! Check your email for a confirmation message and to respond...
View ArticleTo My Daughter: You’re a Whole Hand!
My VBAC baby. The one who was born with a broken clavicle and never once flinched. You nursed like a champ, snuggled like a pro, and were the happiest baby on the planet…as long as you were in my arms...
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