I've been holding on to pre-baby clothes (from the thinnest period of my life) for five years. Five. Freaking. Years. At first, I was...

object mirror object by Emilie is licensed under CC BY 2.0 I've never been a fan of the mirror. Even at my thinnest, I wasn'...

Things have started getting pretty blurry. It happened slowly, so I didn't really even notice. Then one day, after cussing out my contac...

Coffee by Cheryl Foong is licensed under CC BY 2.0 This morning, I dropped my oldest at school and headed to the nearby Starbucks, wh...

Sugar   by  Moyen  Brenn  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 Thanks to a little nudge from my sister-in-law, I started a 21 Day Sugar Detox...

40 Austin's 13th Birthday 2012-Edit by  Meredith Bell  is licensed under CC BY 2.0 I hadn't been thinking much about it. It...

HK 2016 Countdown by Calvin YC  is licensed under CC BY 2.0 It’s noon on January 1, 2016 and I’m sitting in the Odyssey with my lap de...

" Multitasker, Duplo-Thinkpad " by Thomas Angermann is licensed under CC BY 2.0 I'm aiming to blog more frequently, and I...

" Clock " by Dineshraj Goomany is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .   A short time ago, an internet friend sent me a link to an essa...

Lately, I get most of my reading material from my Facebook newsfeed. Thanks to a widely varied friends list plus my own varied list of Page ...

I have something to admit. Something I hate to even type, much less say out loud. Being the perfectionist that I am, I can barely bring myse...

Tomorrow I'm scheduled to be at a local conference for writers. I've paid my registration fee. I've organized schedules so that ...

Since I'm in the throws of building my freelance career alongside being a full-time mom, I'm always on the lookout for resources t...

After the Peanut was born, I found I was having some strange symptoms and I couldn't put my finger on what might be causing them. Some r...

Today I watched delightedly (and belatedly) while Damaris Phillips cried tears of joy as she was named this season's Food Network Star ....

I'm typing this post on my trusty iPhone while the Peanut is napping on my lap. It turns out when you're raising an infant you find ...

Motherhood has taught me a lot of lessons in the few months since I joined the club, but the biggest one I'm learning is how to give mys...

It's been a while since I posted a recipe here, but my niece has decided to be a vegetarian and her mom needed some protein-rich veg rec...

As if I haven’t had enough change in my life over the last couple of years, I’m about to take a huge risk. In two weeks, I say good-bye to ...

I can't believe how quickly the last 6 months have gone by. I'm almost 30 weeks along, but it seems like just yesterday I was announ...