Tag: motherhood

By definition, empathy means the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Some people are naturally empathetic, while others take a bit...

Recently, I have started contemplating motherhood and grandmotherhood, and how they are interconnected, beyond the obvious birth of a new generation. I decided that becoming...

As summer approaches, an anticipation of endless summer nights and beautiful days at the beach intensifies. I reminisce about my childhood summer memories filled...

There is nothing like the end of a school year to make you realize how fleeting time really is. Every June, like clockwork, I...

Thank goodness it’s finally June. May was a very long month, a full May-maggeddon, and May-cember rolled into one brutal stretch. Those thirty-one days...

Motherhood is a symphony of love, chaos, and change. From the moment we hold our babies for the first time, we begin a journey...

It was 3 a.m., and I was awake. My thoughts were racing. Whether it was day or night, I was constantly making decisions for my...

Whenever I meet someone who doesn’t use social media, I always ask, but why? How do you keep in touch with people? They respond...

Today, I didn’t mom so well. I felt guilty about half a million things left undone and agonized over the things I didn’t do for...

When my 13-year-old daughter declared she was too old for summer camp, and my 10-year-old son only agreed to do two weeks of it,...