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Don’t Let Summer Reading End with Summer
If your family is anything like mine ... summertime equals binge-reading time! In May my 9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter always sign up for our library’s summer reading program and spend the next couple...
Nursing Strikes :: They Can Happen to You!
I breastfed each of my older two children for the first year of their life, so I certainly wasn’t a nursing newbie with my third baby. The easiest nursing times were when my babies...
Going from Two to Three…
After having two children, my husband, Shawn, and I debated whether or not to have a third baby.
For a few years, it wasn’t an option. After all, my son, Atticus, and daughter, Amelia, were...
Best Ice Cream Places in Columbia
For my family, summertime means ice cream time! Fortunately, Columbia has several cool ice cream and dessert places.
Scoopy Doo Gelato Shop
A cute little gelato shop in Five Points, Scoopy Doo has a lot to...
Beyond Christian Grey :: Great Summer Book Boyfriends for 2015
I’m a writer and professor and admittedly a teeny bit of a book worm. At the beginning of every summer, I put binge-reading on my list of summer activities right up there with hanging...
5 Things NOT to Say to Someone with Food Allergies
#1. “It’s a lifestyle.”
Granted a particular diet might be a lifestyle choice. Some people choose to be vegetarians or vegans. I choose, as much as possible, not to buy or eat factory farmed meat....
Book Review :: Elisa Albert’s After Birth is Brilliant, Edgy, Honest
I haven’t experienced such a raw, authentic account of new motherhood since reading Sylvia Plath’s “Berck-Plage”: “I am not a smile. / These children are after something, with hooks and cries, / And my...
Gluten-Free Easter Treats
Ah…Easter is approaching, and as with every holiday, it’s an excuse to indulge my sweet tooth a bit. Unfortunately, with gluten issues, I can’t just grab every slice of bunny cake that comes my...
Nurser’s Neck (or reason 101 why breastfeeding can suck)
I’m from a long line of dairy queens — my grandmother breastfed all ten of her children. My mother nursed me and my three siblings for the first year of each of our lives....