Yesterday I was doing laundry in our frigid basement when I saw him. The biggest damn spider I have ever seen in my life. He sat on the wall staring at me. "Why am I afraid of something so small?" I wonder. Because he can bite and kill me, I remind myself. Natural human response. I throw the clothes in the washer and holler for Tyson. He likes this kind of thing, he's too small to understand the danger, but big enough to be intrigued but wary. "Spider! Look! You see it? Spider!" he exclaims. ...

“Damn, I don’t know if I can do this…” I think to myself as I sit there crying over my infant daughter while hiding my face from my toddler. I can’t let him see me cry, because seeing Mommy cry makes Tyson cry. I wallow in a sticky puddle of self-pity for a moment. I can’t help but think how hard this is, I can’t relax and I haven’t had more than a few Doritos and some toast and it’s now 2pm. The 4 hours of sleep I got last night have already been drained from me. “I don’t know if I can do t...

I'm not sure if you all have seen this new Dove ad yet. It's part of their Campaign for real beauty. You can see it by clicking here . I wound up looking at it about a week ago and I wasn't so shocked at how different the girl looked with makeup, but at how much editing was done to her in the computer phase of the project. I knew they slimmed bodies, and plumped breasts, but I never realized they changed a person that much. I showed the video to my husband and he was equally disgusted. I...