"Don't stay home just because you think you'll remember more," my own mother told me during my first pregnancy. I was talking to her...
When my daughter was only a few weeks old, my husband and I were admiring her as she slept and talking about all the...
Nine months sounds like a long time, but it can be a whirlwind for pregnant women preparing for the day when their baby boy...
This is taking me a while to write. I am not sure if it is shame, stress, or just because I am not sure...
Float is a five-and-half-minute Pixar short film that boasts only one spoken line, and yet for so many families like mine, it speaks more...
To have and to hold, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health...through the sleepless nights of crying babies, the "dates" at home...
Many weekends, my family can be found out exploring Jacksonville. We'll go somewhere like the Jacksonville Zoo, the Museum of Science and History, explore downtown......
Shirley Fiano is a Florida native, born and raised in Jacksonville. She graduated from Sandalwood High School and married her husband, Tony, a Marine...
Act 1, Scene 1:
4-Year-Old, shouting (or his regular voice since they’re the same): I don’t want to put my shoes on!
2019 Mom, calmly with...
I will never forget the moment when my 3-year old daughter Audrey said to me, "Mommy, put your phone down!!" And this was after...
In light of much that has happened in the last few years for women and girls, the good and the bad, I want my...
When my oldest was born, I couldn’t wait for all the “firsts.” First smile, first laugh, first time she rolled over… I was there...