Tatsiana Volkava/Moment/Getty Images Last week I was walking into church with another late-arriving mom. I hesitantly asked (as we do these days living in the Washington, D.C. area), “How are you doing?” Dressed in jeans and a bright top, she sighed and looked at me as we climbed the steep hill from the parking lot....
ABC Television raised me. I mean, not literally; my parents raised me — but television had a real hand in it. Maybe because I was a chronically indoor kid, or maybe because I was a young, impressionable tween wildly critical of own parents’ "oppressive" rules (likely a little of column A and a little of...
Dairy Queen/Instagram Every once in a while, my tween daughter tells me we have to do something. Because everyone is talking about it. It’s how we got matching Owala water bottles, and why we saw Inside Out 2 on opening night— sometimes the tweens just know what’s cool before everyone else. Last night, she told...
TikTok Here in America, we often describe the immediate postpartum period as “being in the trenches” and it’s easy to understand why. Hospital stays are brief — between 24 and 48 hours for a vaginal birth and about two to three days for a c-section — and paid maternity leave is, famously, non-existent if your...