Carol Yepes/Getty Images I have been a citrus girl ever since I was 17 years old. Satsuma oil from The Body Shop specifically, but really anything that made my skin smell like an orange rind on Christmas morning. If you were standing close to me and I had just dipped my whole self into a...
TikTok / @duccilou Sometimes, gender reveals just… don’t go the way you want ‘em to. Maybe you didn’t even know you wanted a certain gender until the cake or smoke or balloon shows up, and you suddenly realize that part of you was really expecting a different color. Gender disappointment isn’t uncommon. But, when this...
Instagram A friend recently asked me if I ever look at my kids and think, “You would never survive out in the wild?” I quickly laughed and replied, “I’ve looked at my children and thought they wouldn’t have survived the early-’90s.” It’s not that they’re completely incapable, but my kids are privileged and sheltered, and...
Instagram Ending any relationship, especially a marriage or a commitment to a long-term partner, is hard and never taken lightly. But while such relationships may sometimes end with a cataclysmic bang, more often than not that big event is the result of many, many smaller events that led to something far more dramatic. In a...