The question of being an introvert or an extrovert has always paralyzed me. Um…a little of both? How could I choose? Were people really all one or all the other...
I often get asked about work-life balance, and as a female entrepreneur managing seven-year old twins, a four-year old, and training for this year’s Boston Marathon, I find myself saying,...
One of the most challenging aspects of motherhood in this digital age is the built-in comparison between yourself and others. Intentional or not, one casualty of mindless newsfeed scrolling is...
When they say your heart walks outside of you, it’s true. Mothering changed my identity. Part of me is in my son. My life is tethered to him, our family...
I’ve always had a hard time defining my creativity. Am I artistic? No. Even my stick figures are shameful, and I can’t draw a circle to save my life. Am...
When it comes to empowering women today, career ambitions often take center stage. Ask a young girl what she wants to be when she grows up, and we applaud answers...
It is Minnesota. It is the middle of winter. We basically live in the tundra. And today I got excited because there was not a negative sign in front of...
The lady with the cards didn’t look like what I pictured a tarot card reader to look like but, perhaps, it was her middle-aged, motherly look that put me at...
If you give your child a banana, chances are that someday soon they will ask for another. If your child is preferential to consistency, like mine, their daily banana will...
Winter. It’s what this great state of Minnesota is famous for—the long, cold, snowy, stay-in-your-house-kind-of-frigid days of winter. When my daughter was about 3.5 years old, she walked out into...
What goes fast, but needs you to slow down? Yesterday I managed to get my children fed, dressed and out the door by 8:30am! This may not seem like a...
One of the most beautiful times of many women’s lives has turned out to be the most isolating time in mine. The first trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy is supposed to...