I know we hold mothers to a higher standard of parenting in so many different and often irrational ways, and although I’m a proponent of shared parenting and hands-on fatherhood, I find I’m also a hypocrite.
Every time I read about a story of child abuse involving a man as the perpetrator and the news report [...]

Last night I took one of those online Myers Briggs quizzes. Have you ever taken a Myers Briggs personality inventory? I always think these types of things are interesting, especially if you can print out five pages of results, hand them to your spouse and demand he immediately read and provide relevant feedback.
What I found [...]

I’m a political nincompoop. It’s true. I don’t claim to hold the truth on any particular issue and through the last two decades my ideologies have changed significantly, surprisingly. Experience hasn’t provided wisdom, I don’t think, but it has certainly provided cynicism.
I strongly believe we each have a responsibility to be informed citizens, to participate [...]

It’s 2:47 in the afternoon on day five of my commitment for 30 posts in 30 days, and I’m sitting here thinking about what an insane commitment this was, and I’m wondering why I like self torture.
So rather than anything even resembling a cohesive thought, I’m going to take the liberty to ramble on for [...]

Sunday afternoon I was a little out-of-sorts and feeling rather pessimistic about a couple of things. Not interested in discussing the malaise, I brushed off my husband’s inquiries.
“Tricia, I know everything about you,” said Kim. “I know when you’re happy, when you’re sad, when you’re annoyed and when you’re struggling in your mind with something. [...]

You know how some people look like their dogs? My face is too round to resemble the long snout of a German Shepherd, but my husband and I have decided we act like our dogs. Or, they act like we do….I’m not really sure if it’s nurture or nature.
Meet Max and Ellie, our 2-year-old canine [...]

As  we celebrated my youngest stepchild’s college graduation yesterday and contemplated all the new adventures she’ll create while embracing a new, independent life, I was struck several times by clock hands and their rapid ticking around the nucleus of my life. As every parent is, I’m amazed at the passage of time and the speed [...]

My youngest stepdaughter graduates from college today. This morning’s ceremony and the afternoon’s celebration are a tribute to the achievements of a child now turned woman. She’s grown and succeeded, matured and failed, faltered and galloped while often surprising herself. She’s fantastic.
Like most rites of passage in a child’s life, this moment is not only [...]

What was I thinking when I committed to 30 posts in 30 days? I’m quite certain I may have momentarily lost my mind, but a commitment is a commitment and I’m barreling down the runway ready to pull up the landing gear August 1st.
You can help me reach the goal. Is there something I’ve previously [...]

I’d like to report that I’ve spent the last 24 days unplugged from the land of blog so that I could dedicate time to a fitness regime, to my family and that I even got to throw in a few days of vacation. That would be a big fat lie.
In addition to losing my mind [...]