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Trish Bentley, editor of The Purple Fig, contributor for The Huffington Post, has a new column, Unapologetic Parent: Informative and...

New Year’s resolution posts are a standard issue right now. Tiz the season to want to become healthier, smarter, more productive and...

Today, there are many books, memes and blog posts dedicated to this idea that wine (or any other alcoholic beverage for that matter) is...

For the first time since forever, the sun is shining and warm on our faces. There’s a lull in hostilities and my girls are playing well...

When I was in school I endured many writing workshops (public mental beatings) where I had to showcase my work and listen to what each of...

One bad sunburn before the age of 18 doubles your chances of getting melanoma – the most serious and often fatal form of skin cancer....

It happens. You flip the switch and there’s a sudden bright flash of light, and then darkness. It’s your cue to change the light bulb. My...

Recently, as we sat around the dinner table and looked back on our day, my three year old son told us about how upset he had been. “What...

One day, after the fourteenth emotional breakdown from one of my two young boys, I found myself preaching the idea of happiness being a...

Recently, while reading A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout, I found myself so totally and completely captivated by her prose that I...

It’s hard to believe anyone as beautiful, confident and ambitious as Cynthia Loyst, co-host of the popular TV show The Social (alongside...

There is something that comes along with becoming a mother that is much less obvious than the lack of sleep, post-baby muffin top, and...

If you are a parent, you know the complete powerlessness within parenthood that exists between peeing on a stick and the day you die....

My grandma set the bar for me on how the elderly should roll. I’m only realizing now that she was truly one of a kind. I thought that all...

Suddenly this year every time a commercial for anything toy-related comes on, I hear: “I want that. I want that from Santa!” My son is...

One day, when I was planning my wedding, a friend in the office said, “You will see one day that the wedding means nothing compared to...

When Ann sent me her draft for the piece It Ain’t Over ‘Till You’re Dead I got that wonderful feeling of knowing that I’m not alone. It’s...

So this past week my family and I went to Palm Springs to visit my dad and his wife who currently spend the winters there. We spent...

I often see an older couple walking hand in hand up and down the strip near my house. They saunter slowly next to one another,...

I come out of my doctor’s office after having been told that “I need to have babies now if I want them (…) that if I wait any longer, it...