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A Gift Guide For Someone Who Is Exactly Like Me

If you read here, chances are we have reasonablysimilar taste.

So: In a perfect world, here is my own personal Christmas wish list. (Some of these things I already own, but figured they deserved a spot on yours.)

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This Holiday Season, Make Space For Solitude

Tarot contributor Jessica explains why the holiday season is the perfect time to go deep – even to the places that you fear the most.

If your life is anything like mine, Halloween kicks off a couple of months of festive decorating and nonstop socializing. It makes sense that we want to gather with friends and family to beat back the long, cold nights with hot toddies and tinsel, but I’d like to encourage you to carve out some time and space for quiet solitude. Since I’m a bit of an...

In Which I Am A Character In An Actual, For-Real Horror Movie

Last night was not the first night that I have appeared in my own personal horror movie. No no – that night happened several months back, on one of my very first nights alone in this house without the kids.

I had installed a very fancy security system that had alerts on virtually every door and window and crack in the wall, and so when I awoke in the middle of the night to what sounded like a moan in my backyard, screamed at the top of my lungs, and then heard my very fancy security system...

The Work At Home Mom Gift Guide (AnyMom-Approved)

Hi all, RG Editorial Director Olivia here! I’ve been running my own business from my kitchen table for the better part of a decade now, so I’ve grown quite accustomed to the work-from-home lifestyle. I love working from home, but often find myself wearing the same black leggings and Old Navy sweatshirts day in and out, so I’ve rounded up some of my personal fave work at home outfits, plus a few accessories that make working from the kitchen table a little more…elevated? Sure.

Little caveat:...

On Those “Just Can’t” Nights

This post is sponsored by Red Baron Pizza, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Some nights a mama just can’t.

Like the other day, here is a sampling of the things I had on my to-do list:

Drop off car at mechanic Pick up car from mechanic Have a slight fainting spell over $700 bill from mechanic Bring in cracked cell phone (aughhhh) to get fixed Create PowerPoint for Client 1 Create marketing strategy for Client 2 Learn how to create shortcode for Client 3 (nbd) Spend three hours on...

My Sweet Girl, Goodbye.

This is the first picture of Lucy I ever posted here.

Lucy’s first name was Rosie; I don’t know if I ever told you that. She came to me as a surprise: A girl who my back-then boyfriend and I were friends with had bought a teacup shih tzu with one blue eye and one brown eye for some unconscionable amount of money at a Malibu pet shop. And then that girl decided to go to London and maybe not ever come back, and so she gave the dog – Rosie – to us. I didn’t know this; what happened was that my boyfr...

This Is How It Always Is

If we’re being honest, I don’t think it was my marriage that broke me. It was all the marriages.

I just finished reading this book, Fleishman Is In Trouble. It’s about divorce – and specifically about a woman who, one day, simply disappears – abandons her marriage and her job and her children while her husband holds up the fort, so to speak. It involves major twists that I won’t spoil for you because you really should read it – but I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell you what I took away from it. Which is th...

It’s A Very Ramshackle Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving weekend, I shall be moving. I shall not, therefore, be hosting anything other than the dust bunnies that have apparently been living underneath my couch all this time.

I will, however, be making – and eating beaucoup quantities of – turkey, because my friend Margo and I have decided to do Thanksgiving together (at her place, obviously). Kendrick and the kids are coming, and I’m so excited – I just want a day of eating and football games playing in the background and skateboarding in the drivewa...I’m excited

The Choices We Make

I’m moving. Again.

Not quite so far this time – and with considerably less drama, thank god.

But no matter how you slice it, moving an entire household filled with assorted children, pets, and board games requiring the wrangling of 10,000 extremely small pieces (I hate you, Risk) all by yourself…it’s exhausting. I am exhausted. And excited, because this move is a good one for virtually everyone involved (except maybe Lucy, who DNGAF where she is, because she is very busy napping).

You may have noticed that I spend a lot of...

The Ultimate CBD Gift Guide

CBD: That thing that everyone kiiiiinda thought was a mild form of pot for awhile, and now has become a wellness staple even your grandmother can get on board with.

A quick primer: CBD stands for cannabidiol, a compound found naturally in hemp plants and distinct from THC (which is what creates the psychoactive effect). Cannabinoids work with a series of receptors in your body that perform jobs like regulating your anti-inflammatory response, immune system, appetite, mood, anxiety levels, sleep s...