Health + Safety

A few nights ago, after my daughter went to bed, I was scrolling through Facebook and saw that one of my favorite radio personalities, Phil Inzinga, had posted a video of his son Max (also known as "The Freckled...

When my husband and I found out we were pregnant, we were excited; we were happy. When we found out it was a girl, things started feeling a little more real and exciting. We could finally stop saying "it"...

  For as long as I can remember, I've had some sort of mental health issue. I don't know why that was so scary to type. Maybe because when you hear the words "mental health issue" you think of news...

Have you ever had your child's car seat or booster checked by a professional?  Huh, a professional what?  A professional car seat technician is also called a Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST).  Now is your chance to have your seat checked!...

I have a love of running that goes way back to when my dad took me onto a track for the first time when I was three.  Although I was a sprinter for the first two decades of my life,...

I crouched forward, pressing my forehead to the cool bathroom tile, inwardly praising my husband for his recent scrub of the floor. I breathed in and out slowly, willing away the stomach upheaval and silently pleading for some semblance...

A few days ago, my husband and I were watching Kim's Convenience. Sidenote: please watch this on Netflix if you haven't yet - it's hilarious. We paused to talk about family expectations and how we wished we had families that spent...

Most of my teen years were filled with visits to the gym. I say visits because even though I had a membership I wasn't a gym regular. Honestly I made my mom spend (waste) so much money with my...

The call came in on a Tuesday morning somewhere around 9:12 a.m.   My surgeon was on the line and his first words to me were, “this isn’t the report I wanted to be giving you – you have cancer.  ...

With everyone on high alert and preparing to #flattenthecurve by way of self-quarantine, I've taken this opportunity to clean out rather than stock up. In general, we mamas know the drill come spring! Something inside us stirs, and we...

Say it loud, say it proud -- Penis! Vagina! Masturbation! Piece of cake, right? Now say that in front of your kid… Believe it or not, talking about sex with our children is easy; at least when compared to talking to...

‘My baby boy is not going to be perfect?’….'there is something wrong with him?'….'I am totally powerless to help him!’….’why does it have to be my baby?’ These were a few of the many thoughts trailing  through my mind upon...