Signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder – and What to Do If You’re Feeling SAD Literally the ONLY thing I like about winter: the fire-and-ice sunrises and sunsets that take my breath away. But the rest of it — the snow, the ice, the cold, the darkness. I’d gladly trade a winter wonderland white Christmas for …
Why I’ll Keep Walking My Kindergartener to School Each Morning As Long as He Needs Me It was -7 at school drop-off this morning. -7. Wind chill of -24. And still Easton adamantly refused the car drop-off line. “Can’t we just park and you’ll walk me?” he pleaded. “I won’t be able to hug you …
Easton, my smart, sensitive first-born, is going through a rough patch this month. Although he isn’t talking about it much, all signs point to anxiety about starting kindergarten, or at least to the transition away from his familiar routines. He’s been going to the same daycare center since he was 6 months old. He has …
May is Mental Health Month, a cause near and dear to my heart since high school. I stand with Perfection Pending by Meredith Ethington to #StoptheStigma of mental health issues. If you haven’t read her honest, beautifully written piece, “Why I Take the Pill,” read it and see how it inspired me to question, and …
