Guest Posts

Last year I wrote a post called The Days of Motherhood: Wanting to Feel Less Drained and More Joy in which I essentially complained 🙂 about how draining my days were with…

It’s springtime in Texas and you all should get outside while you still can! Though lasting all of about five seconds, these glorious spring days are bright and beautiful and relatively…

Wow, Hell hath no fury like multitudes of Americans immediately after Inauguration Day this year (and on through the presidential appointments)! I am so proud of and inspired by all…

The end of the holiday season implies the end of the season of giving, but in fact the holidays tend to overflow our homes with an abundance of new clothes,…

Wednesday morning I felt a deep gloom settle in my heart when I knelt down in front of my son and gave him the results of the election. He’s only…

The regrettable truth is that Diwali didn’t hold nearly as much meaning for me during my childhood as it does now. In fact none of the Hindu holidays did, mainly…

Let’s be honest, this thought has crossed all of our minds at least once during this election. Can we truly trust a woman to run this country? We are expected…

      To be honest I don’t know too much about the “Mommy Wars,” at least not in the context of the sociocultural phenomenon. What I do know is…

      Summer is in full swing, as are, I imagine, parents’ anxieties about children losing their academic progress in the face of family vacations, late-night sleepovers, and endless…

        I shouldn’t be writing about motherhood today. Today my husband is in Alabama instead of here in Austin, which is where he has been for the past…