Believe me when I tell you I am the last person on earth to voluntarily stay home with my kids. I am the person that avoids “hanging out at home” at all costs and plans 72 activities an hour all weekend long until I run my family ragged because I just cannot handle sitting around [...]
A couple of days ago the media (along with pretty much every person who considers themselves middle class) got all riled about a group of rich parents, including a couple of notable celebrities, who got caught bribing and cheating and lying their kid's way into "elite" colleges. I'll admit, I did have my own little [...]
This blog post is about 2 years overdue, but, just like I say about remembering to bathe my kids, better late than never. Back in 2016, a few months after Lucy was born I wrote a blog post. It was called The Global OB Fee Trap: How to Find and Fight It. It was a [...]
I was out in the yard with Mia the other day and she had captured some kind of cricket-looking creature in her bug jar. "What is it?" she asked me. "A bug," I answered, holding the jar as far away from my body as possible. "I'm going to ask Yaya," she replied smartly. "She knows [...]
I remember watching Aziz Ansari in Boston. He was a featured speaker at a marketing conference and I sat, at 8:30am, inside a crowded auditorium listening to him speak about modern love and feeling lucky to have found and married my husband without too much ado in the modern dating world beforehand. It hadn't taken [...]
I can't wait until my 40's. I know I know, you're not supposed to wish away time. But by then my kids will be able to wipe their own asses, my student loans will be paid off, and I'll have 4 weeks vacation at my work. I might even have more money in my 401k [...]
The summer of 2006 I was a high school graduate full of hope and excitement for the future. I was busy packing clothes and picking classes and taking bikini selfies for my Facebook profile. I was reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - the required literature for incoming freshmen at Clark University. I had [...]
Oh Baby Richards 