Headphones & Hormones

They've outgrown the highchairs, they can't hear a word you say, and you don't know whose hormones are worse, yours or theirs. Here's my take on parenting teens as a perimenopausal single mom in 2025.

Category: Highchairs and Headaches

  • It’s About Time

    It’s About Time

    No matter who we are or what we are doing, time is always, always passing us by.

  • Enough with Slut Shaming Women on Halloween

    I don’t dress up for Halloween. I didn’t as a child and I don’t as an adult. I have this one sweater with orange stripes that I inadvertently wear every year on Halloween, because that’s about as “festive” as it gets for a lazy person like me. I’ve never dressed as a “slutty” version of…

  • You’re Stronger Than You Think

    You’re Stronger Than You Think

    “Mommy I’m scared. I can’t breathe.” You never want to hear your child say that to you. And when my four-year-old daughter recently said it to me one night around 2am when her cough went from 0-60 out of nowhere, I didn’t waste a second getting her to the emergency room. This isn’t going to be…

  • Five Things I Need in a Bestie

    So I haven’t posted a new blog in over six months. Why? Well, I won’t bore you with details, but mostly because life. Because stress. Because marriage. Because work. Because 4-year-olds. Because 8-year-olds. Because writers block. Because summer. Because back to school. Speaking of back to school, my daughter just started kindergarten at the school where my son is…

  • People Think I’m a Bitch

    They’re wrong. Well, for the most part. I’m actually a pretty nice person, once you get to know me. My problem is that I am separated from the outside world by a very thick cement wall of social anxiety, and it prevents me from functioning normally when interacting with people I don’t know very well.…