by Stephanie | Jul 2, 2019 | motherhood
Once my show is over I’ll calm down and start sleeping better. I just need to get through the end of this session of class. I’ll feel so much better when school is out for the summer. When the broken arm trauma isn’t so fresh, my anxiety will get better. I just need...
by Stephanie | May 8, 2019 | motherhood, parenting
I like to retrace my steps. I’m probably understating that; sometimes I become obsessed with retracing my steps. That time Mom and I met in the Black Hills and I got so lost on the way up the mountain in the dark. Where did I make the wrong turn? I ponder it...
by Stephanie | Jan 10, 2019 | motherhood
I am angry today. A fellow mother writer (guys, I still refuse to use the diminishing, irritating, patronizing moniker “mommy blogger”), Christie Tate, wrote about why she won’t stop writing about motherhood and she is being slammed big time all across the internet....
by Stephanie | Sep 7, 2018 | family life, motherhood, parenting
My daughter started middle school three weeks ago and it’s certainly had its ups and downs . . . I knew it would be tricky but I really wasn’t prepared for quite how much it would trigger me. I mean, opening the locker alone was enough to make me...
by Stephanie | May 18, 2018 | motherhood
“Hi, Mama,” my 6th grader says as I walk up behind her. It’s Field Day, and she’s sitting with a group of her 12-year-old friends. Mama. She says it casually, naturally, just as when we are home, both she and her six-year-old sister alternate...
by Stephanie | Mar 22, 2018 | family life, motherhood, parenting
A few weeks ago my six-year-old daughter had her tonsils out. I was terrified. I spent the days (and weeks) prior to her surgery envisioning worst case scenarios and then trying to replace them with harmonious visions of everything going smoothly. And things did go...
