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Facebook is Dying. You Can Blame (Thank?) GenX
Published 04/17/25 She’s Got Issues It’s coming, you know. Most of us can already feel it.Facebook is dying on the vine and my people are behind it. My people are, of course, the all-powerful GenX. We brought the fledgling platform to its frenzied summit and now my fellow ladies raised on Rizzo will be sipping our badass beers (no koozies, no White Claws) with cool indifference as Facebook folds…
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Middle Age Wisdom: Keeping Friends Close & Fakers Curbside
For the past few years ― without apology ― I’ve taken stock of the people in my orbit and have treated myself to a cleanse; I’ve coined it De-friend December. I take a thoughtful assessment of my friends and decide if, well, we are. There’s no complicated algorithm or formula. It’s actually pretty basic and focuses on one extremely humble question: Are we really friends? I drop the dead weight…
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Kids, I Love You, Now Leave. A Mom Comes Clean on the Empty Nest Countdown
My third child is packing up to fly the coop, far, far away, into a new time zone. He’s following in the footsteps of his older siblings and — with his remaining brother left behind in his final year of college — leaving me precariously close to being an empty nester. I probably should be sadder but I just can’t muster the melancholy. In fact (looks over shoulder, whispers), I may be getting a…
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Eyerollingmom in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine: A Nod to the Nuance & Necessity of Sisterhood
Reprinted from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (online 11/21/24; in print 11/23/24) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/22/magazine/sisterhoods-twists-and-turns/ I had adored Nora Ephron since before I even knew what she was so ornery about (neck wattle? what???), so it was an indescribably meta moment for me when I heard from her sister, Delia. The long and winding road of my connection…
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My Big Boston Globe Debut (thanks to my baffling, bougie kids!)
ICYMI ... after only a few decades of writing I (finally!) gained some street cred! Keep. On. Swimming!
DISCLAIMER: This entire piece is reprinted/copied & pasted from the Boston Globe, where it appeared online on May 28, 2024 and in print on June 2, 2024 (see for yourself!) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/28/magazine/when-did-my-kids-get-so-bougie/ I roll my eyes a lot with my grown children. I wish I didn’t. Lord knows I was also wildly winging life in my 20s and 30s, but something’s…
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Spring Break at the Unhappiest Place on Earth
I will tell you: nothing opens your eyes faster than an unexpected hospital stay. Looking back, I was somewhat naïve. Did I really believe I would declare, welp, it’s been a full week – time to find out what this pesky stomach pain is all about and then not get whisked into an enforced staycation? I’m not the brightest band-aid in the box. I was admitted and rushed into a room faster than…
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On Being a (Pretty Good) Mom (Sometimes)
In the hopes my children will never read this (or at the very least, lose interest midway through and click off like they usually do), I’ll make the mother of all confessions (no pun intended): at times I am not a great mom. Now … It’s not a tragic scenario by any means. I’ve never lost a kid at the mall (which, I might add, instantly places me in a winner’s circle without my sister), but I have…
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Eyerollingmom's *3* (Foolproof!) Tips For a Happy Marriage
Kids, pull up a chair & start taking notes! Mom's gonna show you how to get to a Happy Anniversary for the 33rd time! Cheers to us!
This past year my kids have seen a few surprising divorces happen within their friend circles. While kids rarely notice, I don’t know, anything? that doesn’t directly affect them, I can tell the unpleasant new normal of these lovely families – families they’ve been close with for years – has left them a bit shaken. Perhaps I’m overthinking their pensive stares when I shake my head (All. The.…
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London Table for One: Learning, Living & Leaving (or better) Mom Needs a Pint - Stat
I traveled to another country with my daughter and I left her there. Wait. How in the world did I miss this chapter in the Big Book of Parenting???
I traveled to another country with my daughter and I left her there. In the cab on my way to the airport in pre-dawn darkness with her apartment – excuse me, flat — fading from view, I went over the past week in my head. It seemed I’d blinked and suddenly all the planning and problems and logistical hiccups had passed and now it was time for me to go. Oddly, I felt good. Better than good, I…
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From BFFs to Frenemies to Crazy Ex-Girlfriends: Female Friendship is True Love OG
*NEW POST* To All the Girls I've Loved Before: A Love Letter -- Share & Tag all your gurlsssssss!!!
Happy Anniversary to my best friend! Today, I’m marrying my best friend! My best friend said yes! Ewww. Stop. Just stop. Please. Scrolling through these sentiments always brings up a little bile. I’ve been with my husband for 100 years and sure, he’s a keeper, but there’s no way he’ll ever be my top seed on my friend list. Father of the Year? Yes, no question. Great Guy 4eva? Absolutely,…
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Little Baby Fug
I should have seen it coming. I should have known. I should have been prepared. But why would I ever think the odds were going to tilt in favor of irony when Fate had been so kind to me before? I had tested her and tempted her on three separate occasions, and now fickle Fate was sending me a message: the well of good fortune had run dry and that was it. We were done. So my fourth baby came…
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Kids, In Case of Emergency Um, Find a Printer?
New year, NEW POST!!! Would YOUR kids know what to do if anything ever happened to you? Panic attacks in 3...2...
I recently went on vacation out of the country. As if the stress of wrapping up work, packing, losing 15 pounds and organizing international paperwork wasn’t bad enough, I found panic and anxiety creeping in as the days ticked off to departure. It was unavoidable: God Forbid mode was setting in. Now, I’m not typically a person concerned with planes nosediving into the ocean. Quite the…
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In Memoriam: Waving Goodbye to Resolutions
In Memoriam: Waving Goodbye to Resolutions
I overheard an *expert (of what I couldn’t say) on a morning show the other day. This being the week between Christmas and New Year’s (when obviously real news is on vacation along with the regular hosts) the program was filled with pre-recorded, blathery end-of-year stuff. Round-ups, Best-Ofs, Top-Grossings blah-blah blah. But I did hear one statement and it’s stuck with me. The mystery…
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Kids, I Love You, Now Leave: A Mom Comes Clean on the Empty Nest Countdown
Kids, I Love You, Now Leave: A Mom Comes Clean on the Empty Nest Countdown
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Last Slicks: A Mom’s Parting Shot to Her Adult Kids
Off they go! But first: My Top (3) Tips for my Kids' Adulting Journey
My youngest – my baby – just pulled up the rear and became a grown up (well, in the pass me a beer sense. We all know they’re already true grownups at eighteen *raucous laughter) so what, game over? Is my job done? Now that everyone in my litter is (deep breath, slight smirk) adulting I’m golden, right? Interesting idea. I’d like to think so but something tells me I haven’t clocked my last…
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Outsmarted by Mom? Pfft. Always.
Outsmarted by Mom? Pfft. Always.
My childhood played out in the 70s and my adolescence was fine-tuned in the 80s so despite a legitimate fear of the ocean thanks to fictional cinema, I grew up a genius. Okay maybe not an actual genius but definitely brilliant – especially compared to my kids at that age. Diplomas aside, I’m sorry, what in the world happened to street smarts? I grew up knowing things. Cool things. Important…
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Worse Than The Mean Girls? The Angry, Angry Adults.
Worse Than The Mean Girls? The Angry, Angry Adults.
I have been trying my damnedest to turn away from negativity but I’m finding it no small feat. It would be a lot easier if nastiness wasn’t (accurately) everywhere but it seems it’s become the norm to express anger the moment it’s felt. Have keyboard, will spew. It’s insane. And getting worse. The spewing has been gaining in momentum and rising in vitriol for years. How have we not managed…
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