Last week I wrote this post proposing that women shift their thinking around Mom’s Nights Out. Meeting regularly with women to talk and vent and just hang out without kids around is one form of self-care. I challenged women to plan a weekly meeting with other women that involved another form of self-care. Exercise. Today […]
Lessons I've Learned
A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter
Number 5 has always been a good sleeper. She learned to sleep on her own when she was a baby — we never had to make her cry it out. One day around five months old, she slept through the night. And that was it. There was a phase when she was two or three […]
The Marie Forleo Experience
On Monday night I went into New York City to see Marie Forleo speak. If you read Friday’s post, you know this was way out of my comfort zone for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that while I’ve been to the city many times (it’s only an hour away from […]
The Mom’s Night (or Morning or Day) Out Challenge
I used to really look forward to a good Mom’s Night Out. And I’d usually get totally hammered at them. It was fun in the moment, but the next day seriously sucked. And the older I got, the longer it would take me to recover from them. Then I decided to stop drinking (26 months […]
The Universe Does Not Fuck Around
I swam all four years I was at Lehigh. I made some really, really good friends. That’s the way it normally works with swimmers. If you are on the swim team, you have friendships and bonds for life. Only swimmers understand the swim life. The swim team is its own fraternity and sorority. Along with […]
You Can Do Hard Things
One of the reasons I am such a big proponent of exercise — aside from the obvious physical benefits and the mental health benefits and the example you are setting for your kids when it’s a regular part of your routine — is that you are pushed out of your physical comfort zone. And this […]
