Category: the girl behind the screen

Trouble Leaving

Many months ago, I asked my husband for just one small thing for my birthday. (I’m turning 38 in May. 37? 38? Definitely 38. I honestly can never remember how old I am which means I am just old I guess.) I wanted him to arrange for me to have…

More Hits Than Misses Is Not Just A Battleship Goal

I’m trying desperately to raise decent fairly independent humans. I see all the blog posts. And then I see all the rebuttals to all the blog posts, telling me that the original posts are all wrong. We should helicopter our kids. We shouldn’t helicopter them! We should tell our kids…

Love: It’s Not Just For Contacts

It’s true what they say, wearing contacts is like riding a bicycle. Or something. Or not. But I’m wearing contacts again after thinking about it for about 2 years. It was either contacts or bangs and I figured contacts were the easier of the two commitments, and will require far…