Most of us can agree that one of the best parts about growing up when we did was how the holidays played out, including ...

Your empty (or if you still have a child at home) nest is about to be re-feathered. As you’re preparing for Thanksgiving —shopping for dinner, re-stocking the fridge with the foods you haven’t bought ...

My firstborn wanted to go far away for college. She didn’t come home often during her four years on the opposite side of the country. Once she left, I quickly became one of “those moms” who listened ...

And the seasons, they go round and round and the painted ponies go up and down. We’re captive on the carousel of time. The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell Thanksgiving has changed through the years and ...

Melissa Fenton is a freelance writer and adjunct librarian at Pasco-Hernando State College. Find her writing all over the internet, but her work mostly on the dinner table. Find her on Facebook ...

A pair of notes to self socks are more than just a pair of socks – they are affirming! Each one has an encouraging word or phrase to remind your recipient that they are crushing it, beautiful, strong, ...

Liz Talley is an award-winning author of women’s fiction and romance, and in her spring 2018 release Come Home to Me explores the fallout that occurs from the blurred lines of consent. A former ...

I have always been the biggest holiday freak you could ever meet. I didn’t understand people who hated listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving or why people would get so grumpy and retreat ...

It’s finally here. The long weekend you’ve had circled on your calendar and in your mind since summer. The three or four full days when your mama molecules will be at full charge once again from being ...

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