I Get By With A Little Help

March 19, 2012

On New Year’s Day, my friend Brianne sent an email to our group of friends that expressed her hope that we could have a yearly girls’ trip. We all replied in the affirmative, with possible location ideas that would be fun for late summer. We needed babies to get older, pregnancies to get farther along, jobs to [...]

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Slice Of Life

December 6, 2011

The town I grew up in was a pretty stereotypical small town. It’s tripled in size since I was a kid, but back then everyone knew everyone, and you ran into them at the only grocery store/pharmacy/post office in town. There was one big hangout, Lamppost Pizza. Last Friday night I discovered, via Facebook, that [...]

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Best Friends, Big Shoes

August 22, 2011

My parents moved into the house they currently live in back in 1981, after my second birthday. They lived in a couple houses before that one, but the current house is the only one I remember. My grandmother and great grandmother lived in the house with us. I was such a lucky kid – thank [...]

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The Time I Went To New Orleans And Spoiled The Ending Of “Se7en”

April 18, 2011

As Mike mentioned, I had a trip scheduled this past weekend to speak at the Mom 2.0 Summit. I didn’t want to leave when Jackie! was having her surgery in Los Angeles. And yes, as Mike said, I cried a lot, thanks for telling everyone and ruining my street cred, Mike. But I was convinced [...]

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What’s It Like To Be A Twin?

March 29, 2011

I get asked that question all the time. I do my best to answer, even though it would be like me asking you, “what’s it like to have a nose?” My brother Kyle is my only sibling, so I only know what it’s like to have a brother that’s the same age. That being said, [...]

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Oprah!

March 1, 2011

Yesterday I crossed an item off of my life list – I got to see a taping of Oprah! The Oprah Winfrey Show taped in Los Angeles yesterday for Oprah’s annual post-Academy Awards show. My friend Leslie and I showed up at 6:30 am to go through a series of checkpoints before we finally made [...]

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