Have you ever felt like you are standing still? Treading water? Not making much progress in this lovely little thing we call life? Yea…I can relate. Um…a lot. No, this is not the beginning of a script for an informercial or a self help book. But I did inadvertently came across the perfect solution for you […]
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There is one topic that I have deliberately avoided writing about on this lovely little blog, and that is romantic love. Yea, I know, I discuss it in the distant, vague, “god wouldn’t that be nice sense”…but I’ve avoided it because, for the most part, there really hasn’t been anything to talk about. Aaaaand I’ve avoided […]
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I have a problem…and I think it is a fairly large personality defect that I need help working on… I don’t do patience. I think I am actually wired this way, because ever since I can remember, I can recall asking for something over and over again to my parents, “How ’bout now?…How ’bout […]
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I was talking to a friend the other night, sharing with him stories about my early pregnancy and how before I even knew I was pregnant, I had that cooky dream that I wrote about back in the day, where the late movie critic Joel Siegel appeared to me, sitting at the foot of my […]
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Originally Posted on My Lifetime A few months ago, a friend confided in me that she was beginning the adoption process – as a single woman. We chatted about the process, the paperwork and the costs, and she asked me question after question, trying to get as good a grasp as possible on what […]
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Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms Oh, the great debate over public versus private gives me great anxiety – and no, I am not talking about my Facebook profile settings (which, by the way, I still can’t quite seem to master). I am talking about the internal and external debate over public education versus private education. […]
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She broke me. She, being my 22-month-old darling, broke me. Well it was a combo of her and trying to do laundry in Manhattan. But regardless, Sunday marks the first time my child actually made me cry. Ok – here is the situation…in our building of 6 floors with 8 units on each, there are […]
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Life is really interesting. At any given moment, you can cross paths with a person, and one little comment can shift your world – without them even knowing it. Recently, there have been a few instances that someone has said or done something to me that has really, really impacted me, and it serves as […]
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I was out to dinner with a group of friends a few weeks ago, and almost everyone at the table was a parent…which meant – no matter how hard we would try – conversations would ultimately head toward talk of our kids. One of the moms was talking about milestones and discipline and how when […]
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As Mother’s Day rapidly approaches, I have become very reflective about the way I became a mother. For those of you that aren’t totally read in to “Cara’s Road to Motherhood“, I’ll catch you up to speed. I was dating someone for a couple months, I got pregnant, and I became pregnant and single, which […]
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