How To Get Your Teens To Talk To You: No, It’s Not Impossible

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.” ~ Catherine M. Wallace Remember when your …

Well, I Didn’t See That Coming

Parenting teens during a pandemic amiright? LOLZ. *drinks wine* 2020 and now moving into 2021 has been a challenge. I'm happy/relieved I don't have little kids at home because I can't imagine how difficult it is to parent wee ones while working from home, attempting to have them log onto Zoom school AND stay focused …

Let’s Lean Into The Good

Welp, it's October and planet earth is still a shit show. The west coast fires are continuing to burn, we've pretty much fucked up the planet and record sea temperatures have been now been documented, and the first presidential debate was so anxiety-producing even my weighted blanket needed a weighted blanket. Fuck you, Trump. Earlier …

And This Is How I Became Pals With a Spider

A spider is living in the driver side view mirror of my van. The first web appeared weeks ago stretching from mirror to window to door. I brushed it away followed by a full body spiderweb ninja dance as I shook the web free from my hand, not giving it much thought. I had been …

Flashes of the Future: I Don’t Like The New Normal

For the most part my days seem normal. I've kept routines, waking early, commuting to my couch for work, walking every day, even lucky enough to be able to go to cottage country and be surrounded by water and nature. Then I'll have a moment of panic. A "this is our lives now" moment of …

My Back To School Shopping List

Remember when the pandemic first began and we were all baking bread and figuring out how to drink wine with friends on Zoom? I miss those simpler times when I didn't have to decide if sending my son to school would kill people in our family. March feels like 72 years ago. So, yes. Back …

Anyone Else Exhausted as F*ck?

Back in March, I was going to write every day, my COVID diary so to speak. That lasted all of two days. When I look back on that second day, our numbers seemed so high. Little did I realize how naive I was. But at the time, in all honesty, I was viewing it as …

Day Two: My Kids Open Packages With a Weed Wacker, Apparently

I thought maybe rabid honey badgers had been let into my house to open packages/food, but no, just my kids. Hasn't anyone done a YouTube tutorial showing you can open a cereal box without tearing it to shreds? So far online all the updates have been Rudolph to the extreme, shiny and bright. Playing board …

Day One Self-Isolation: Everything is Shiny and Bright

It seems I have time on my hands. Lots of time. Nothing but time, really. The dog's going to be getting a lot of walks in these coming weeks. Yesterday, my employer made the difficult decision to shut down his business for, as of right now, two weeks. It's a health club, one-on-one personal training. …

Advice To My 24-Hours-From-Now Self

Seriously, put on the sunscreen, Magda.