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They say you never forget your first love. For the most part, it's true. But I am one of those people who would give anything to forget mine. It was butterflies... until it wasn't....

I'll never forget the moment my husband walked through the front door around noon on a Tuesday. He threw his work bag down and flung his sunglasses across the entry table, threw his phone...

It has come to my attention... er, I am making it come to attention that we are not being clear when it comes to the attendance of adults at kids' birthday parties. So, let’s...

Dear Mother-In-Law, It's time to put on our big girl pants, sit up straight, and lay our cards on the table because this is the last amount of effort you'll see from me. For the...

The front office of an elementary school is a challenging, fast-paced, exhausting place to work, but it’s also rewarding in ways I never thought possible. I remember when COVID first started, there was this...

My mother always told me to never give up, and even on my worst day, tomorrow would be better. That was her own way of teaching me about suicide — and that it's never...

There was no “defining moment,” like dressing in drag or preferring to play with Barbies or crushing on Bieber, but by the time he was in middle school, I started to suspect my son...

The Beginning I was today years old when I signed my very first lease with just my signature. There were no co-signers like in college, and I was not listed as secondary — as I...

Your parents were right, marijuana is a gateway drug... to easing your adult anxiety. It started when CBD first hit my nervous system and started to ease a lot of my anxiety in a manner...

Dear Employer, I just want to thank you for recognizing how our company’s staff kept us in business through the pandemic. When you asked us to work from home, we did. When you asked us...

In high school, I probably had some slight depression and anxiety. Back in the day, there was no social media though, and no one really talked about mental health in teenagers. In retrospect, after...

It was an unseasonably freezing cold day, five days after Christmas, when our lives were changed forever. The unexpected happened, and we lost one of the few we love the most. The most wonderful...