Oh yes, people. I’m going there. I’m going Bieber. And I can’t even belieber it. My dear friend Katie has been having a tough time lately with the question “What comes next?” In an email exchange yesterday, we talked about forever and never. And that made me remember this song and the fact that I’ve…
i love the internet
Don’t be an ostrich
Do you know what ostriches sometimes do when there’s something they don’t want to face? They stick their head in the sand and wait for it to pass. Sometimes, I’m an ostrich. Last week’s tornadoes are the kind of thing that I’m ashamed to say I sometimes avoid thinking about. My heart gets overwhelmed by…
Dedicated to Depression
Five years ago I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love with the kind of voracity and appetite I used once upon a time to devour Baby Sitter’s Club books. There was one passage in the memoir that really spoke to me the first time I read it. Gilbert is in Italy and she talks about…
Social Distortion
Monday morning I read an article that covered the AAP’s most recent findings that Facebook can lead to depression in teens and tweens. With all the emphasis teens and tweens put on having friends and being accepted and seen as cool, this makes total sense to me. (What I linked to above is not the…
I pledge allegiance to the moms
I was bullied during my childhood and adolescence. This bullying was rationalized away as being “just what kids do.”It’s not. It doesn’t have to be. Kids don’t just learn to be bullies because it’s in their nature. They learn it from their parents and the adults in their lives. In my adult life, I’m sad…