Do you have a burning question about pregnancy, modern parenting or family life? Send it to Evie at AskEvieColumn@gmail.com or click here to submit your question anonymously. Dear Evie, You know when you want a job really, really bad, you do all this prep and sweat over the interview and try on 400 outfits? Then you […]
I expected adoption to add to the number of people who lived in my house but it’s been much more. It’s changed every nuance of my life and turned things upside down and sideways. I’ve been on what I like to call the adoption crazy train since 2011, when we first decided to adopt our son […]
At 41 years old, I have finally realized: I am the grown up now. A grown woman with my own family, small as we may be, I don’t have to wait for permission to be happy. Every year, when discussing the coming holidays, inevitably someone I know offers up a variation of the same tribal […]
We can’t control when people shift, change, or vanish from our lives entirely. But when we are open enough to let the right people support us, we can build our own families from the ground up. Margaret Atwood once wrote that divorce is like an amputation. You survive it, but there’s less of you. When […]
I was a biter. I was a hitter. I was a smart ass and spit out some fairly ugly things in anger, at my mother, who—kinder and gentler than most—took it. Every year on October 31st, I call my mother. Not because she is particularly fond of Halloween, but because it’s my birthday. “Happy my […]
Mothers with ADHD are frequently bad at the very things that women are stereotypically supposed to be good at. In most of the ways that matter, my friend Karen was a wonderful parent. She loved her children and demonstrated it daily. She hugged them, played with them, and read to them. She was neither permissive […]
You can do this, even when you don’t think you can. I won’t lie. There were times growing up that I hated my mom. She was a single mom. She spent her days teaching emotionally disturbed children and would come home totally exhausted. Some days she was so tired that she locked herself in her […]
“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck My 6th grade music teacher decided that, for the school Christmas program that year, our class would be doing a musical […]
