If you’re lucky, you have people in your life who push you. Not, like, off a cliff (avoid those people) — but who push you to be better than you were the day before. My friend Amanda is one of … Continue reading It’s her fault I illustrated a book
There used to be a TV show called “Kids Say the Darnedest Things.” It hasn’t aired in years, but if you’re around kids, you get a firsthand experience of this sentiment all the time. Since I met my stepkids in … Continue reading 3+ME: Kids, making adults chuckle since … well, since kids were invented
You know how some dogs get scared when there’s fireworks?
Well, two years ago, that was me, as terrified as a puppy on the Fourth of July.
Continue reading “Three+Me: Before they were my stepkids, they were my boyfriend’s kids”
Ah, another glorious piece of plastic in my wallet. I’ve been meaning to get one for months, and finally took the plunge last week.
A library card in our “new” town. (Realize we’ve been in our apartment for over a year. I procrastinate.)
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Couch. Coffee table. Fog machine. Disco lights.
If you took a tour of our apartment’s living room recently, these are some of the things you’d have seen.
Continue reading “Three+Me: Sentimentality vs. the space it takes up”
It was a Sunday, and I woke up at 6:30 a.m. The jetlag from the honeymoon still hadn’t worn off.
But awake or not, I had no intention of getting out of bed.
Continue reading “Three+Me: The days you just can’t make breakfast”
The wedding happened. Leading up to it, I was excited, but also a little scared. What would my fiance’s kids do?
Continue reading “Three+Me: A wedding when your brand-new husband has kids”
It was almost Mother’s Day, and I’m not a mom.
I never wanted to be a mom, actually. Girlfriend? Yes. Wife someday? Absolutely. But mom? No thanks.
Continue reading “Three+Me: With stepmoms, Disney got it wrong”
