While making dinner the other day, I noticed our 2-year-old setting silverware out on the table. Although I never taught her how to do this, it didn’t surprise me, since she loves mimicking her big sister. And big sister …
Call for Submissions – April 2020 (magazine August issue)
We are seeking a wide variety of content. We highly value unique perspectives or novel thought processes with a diversity of voices and experiences as well as variations in content lengths. These types of pieces will have a better chance …
Without an Escape: Blended Life in Quarantine
Given the COVID-19 stay home mandate, blended families without an escape hatch may find themselves experiencing heightened conflict or taking steps backward in the fragile path toward progress in relationships. Universally, we are learning to cope with loss during this …
4 Things You Can Ask To Go Deeper
There is a special kind of loneliness that comes with being a mother, especially of young children. Your life is consumed by the details of their day, leaving little room for you to pay attention to your own. You crave …
How To Find Your Village
People say that it takes a village – a village to raise kids. However, what they leave out is how to find the village. It takes work, putting yourself out there, care and consideration to form YOUR village. I emphasize YOUR …
A MOPS Story: One September Morning
I think my baby girl was about 6 weeks old when I first felt the itch to expand our world beyond the hammock in our backyard. While I loved snuggling my sweet newborn, I knew we needed a community. I …
Soul Mates
“Dad, do you believe in soul mates?” I asked. His eyebrows raised behind the paper he was reading. “Well …” he began. His fingers drummed a nervous rhythm on the tabletop. My dad’s hands were always moving, either pushing back …
Does Your Parenting Style Hurt Your Marriage?
When I found out I was pregnant with my first daughter, I had visions of our family sharing Hallmark movie-inspired moments together as we sang happy little children’s songs, enjoyed beautifully cooked meals, and ended each day after the kids …
How Parenting Changed my Marriage
Derek held our baby first. I couldn’t. I was shaking from the labor and the, oh so many drugs that had been pumped into my body. Besides I was leaning over the side of the hospital bed puking into a …
Call for Submissions: Winter 2017 Magazine
Wonder: Wonder is a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable. It requires curiosity – something that often falls from our reality as we get older, and our to-do list and to-be lists …