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That’s the question.

Are the guys flirting with me to be nice? Or do I still have it?

The role means relearning algebra and sometimes being uncool.

Military housing can be less than nice. But it’s not all bad.

My new purse cost $19. And that was a lot for me!

No more a la carte. Even though it’s not as fancy as I’d like, dinner is now what I decide to make.

I see the allure of getting back to basics. But all that wonderfulness disappears at sundown.

She has a search engine and all the apps you could possibly think of factory-installed.

My husband’s GPS. Yes, I’ve played the ‘it’s her or me’ card.

My son has his first job, and it’s a bit like sending him off on the first day of school.

My husband says it’s time for me to get a new car. I don’t particularly want one, though. My minivan is 10 years old, and she and I understand each other just fine. I get to where I’m going in… »

You have been on your own for up to a year, and now he’s home. After the welcome-home celebrations, you have to learn how to live together again. It’s doubly hard if there’s a toddler who only knows daddy as… »

I took my daughter for her first manicure and it got me thinking. I’m 45, and I’ve never had a manicure. I’ve never had a pedicure, a facial or a massage either. At 11, my daughter has already surpassed me… »

I get a lot of comments from people that I’m not what they expected.

And that I don’t act or talk “black.”

Is there anything worse than a sick child?

When you have a newborn, people warn you about the “terrible twos” and regale you with horror stories about their boy Timmy who took apart the screen door, or little Mamie who tried to water the pretty flowers she saw… »

Let me preface this blog by saying that teachers are the most under paid, and under appreciated people on this earth. I know that I wouldn’t last more than a week if I had to do their job. That being… »

It looks different for a military family.

I am mourning the death of proper language. I had feared its demise for some time, but I now have proof. I was at seventh-grade orientation night with my family, and we spotted one of my daughter’s friends at a… »

Because you don’t get to keep score, Princess.