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Today I wrote my first check of 2026. It was unnerving because I just got used to writing 2025 on checks, as if the muscle memory took all year and now the rug is being pulled out from underneath me. The act of writing a check in the first place bubbles up a general fear that I am actually a complete boomer locked in a Xennial body. Can you relate? Middle age brings both a sense of some dread and IDGAF (flip! Read: flip). I literally can't peruse a restaurant menu anymore wi

This weekend represents so much more than, “I finally got a race car!”  The journey to owning this Spec E46 — at this time  — has been...

Nothing rivals the new beginning that Spring represents. This season never ceases to amaze me when the crocuses, snow drops and...

This weekend I skirted death. Maybe that's a little dramatic. But one of the lessons that car racing teaches you is that life is full of...

For whatever reason, the waiting room at the pediatrician's office this morning was chock full of adorable little girls. As I sat there with my teenaged baby girl who is now an inch taller than I am, I observed the parents managing these precious bow-wearing tots. One toddler was wriggling on the floor and ignoring her mother's pleas to sit on the chair with her, and another continuously turned up the volume on her iPad despite her father's repeated and kind instructions that

There are pivotal moments that we allow to define us in life if we let them. For example, I became a mother the moment I saw those two...

We so often talk about the hills and valleys, and how we can learn from both. But we don't talk about the plateaus as much. Chess prodigy...

The Beautiful List book gets inside the mind of tween girls, meeting them in their insecurity and walking them out the other side in beauty.

One of the things I've heard about becoming an author is that writing the book is the easy part. I've already learned this to be true....

Today, my mind is on the women and girls around the world right now who are being bought and sold, as many as two dozen times a day, for...

Yesterday my mom sent me a funny meme from the_mommy_talks that said, "Mama Bear is such a sweet way to describe the fact that I'd tear...

“You Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, et al While watching my daughter’s basketball game last...

On Thursday, I met up with an old friend. She’s actually a former co-worker. My business partner and I hired her and one other amazing...

Progress is like a snowball that starts small but gains momentum, growing as it rolls As I scrolled through Instagram over the weekend, I...

The most anxiety-inducing, fear-mongering event in my parenting career happened last week. While the kids were prepping a dining room...