Advice

I'm lucky enough to have had internet friends for over 20 years, friends who will give advice—whether solicited or not. Collectively, this group seemed appalled that at 48, and living in a cloudy Midwest state, I had never had...

“I recognize that we who survived the Holocaust have a responsibility to tell our stories to give hope to the slogan ‘Never Again.’” - George Elbaum, Holocaust survivor It is never easy to talk to our children about difficult topics....

I used to volunteer for an organization that worked with women who were survivors of sexual assault. One of my roles was to be with women while they were having their rape kit completed in the emergency room. The...

2020 . . . what a year. For so many of us, this year was hard. It was a year of loss. It was a year of isolation. It was a year of uncertainty. It was a year of frustration...

I am crying over a Google commercial. I guess this is where I'm at in life. I am sitting at the dinner table, fork full of food, gaping mouth, crying over a Google commercial. If you've seen it, you probably...

All told, I believe this is either year 34 or 35 winters in Iowa, and until a few years ago, I'm sorry to tell you that I mostly hibernated through the months of December, January, and February . ....

  I think it’s easy to imagine that surrender is doing nothing. Just waiting--for the time to go by, or for things to happen. But surrender is a verb: it’s an action. It’s an acceptance of what is. It’s starting...

Hi Mamas! How are you doing? Hanging in there? I find that some days I think "I can do this!" and other days I think "Who can do this?" Either way, it sounds like I'll be social distancing from everyone,...

September 15 - October 15 is Latinx Heritage Month, also known as National Hispanic Heritage Month, a period to formally recognize the contributions and influence of Latinx peoples to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. But these...

As a former full-time elementary classroom teacher, I absolutely loved this time of the year. It is a moment when we pause and think about lessons of kindness, of peaceful protest, and of marches meant to make way for...