
Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling
Glass ceiling: So it's a ceiling that you can see through but you can't go through. Right? Typically a term used in corporate America....

Anniversary Traditions- MOM 4/20/50-1/13/2003
Yup, that is a picture of me and my mom. Way back when at my house in Naperville, Illinois. I was probably around 10. Now back to this...

15 years later
This Saturday will mark 15 years since I lost my mom to her battle with breast cancer. I write this to share that we are not as alone as we

Grandma's boyfriend......
My friend (who is also a parent like me) was telling me how her widowed mom has a boyfriend. I too have experienced a parent dating and...

What is normal? Mental Health
I'll be honest. I wrote this one and let it sit for awhile. Normally I publish instantly in fear I will change my mind if I wait. I'm...

Baggage
Baggage....We all have it. Not everyone knows it but we all carry around our past in a small little bag of unlit fireworks in our head....

Fast-food with a side of Ebola...
Today is a reminder of just how far I have come. Oh, the places I have been and had near mental breakdowns. Let me set the scene for you....

Botox Botox Botox
Alright....so here it is. I've been asked by quite a few people at this point about my skin. I'm 37 and a mom of three (which most...

Postpartum what.....
I definitely was in no way having postpartum depression. I was sure of it....At least I thought I was. Depression means feeling sad and...

Las Vegas, Paris, Boston: Learning to Cope......
How do I cope...... Let me start here first. After each one of these things happened I found out by someone posting a photo on facebook...

Take a look in the Mirror.....
You have 3 choices every single day in every single minute. 1. You can sit on the sidelines of your life. You can complain and be part...

The Human Race - Rules to live by
A blunt perspective on how to treat people

Souls??? WTF
What is a "soul?" That word made no sense to me for the first 22 years of my life. What changed and why? Read more to find out.

Do you watch the news?
dealing with anxiety created from watching the news

Today
After 37 years of living, here is the thing I have learned about LIFE... If you live in the past, you are going to be depressed. If you...