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Gift Ideas For Moms Who Say Don’t Get Me Anything (But Definitely Don’t Need Another Bathrobe)

We may say “don’t get me anything” but what that means is we want something thoughtful and perfect. (No pressure.) Two years ago, Penn and the kids bought me a bathrobe. I sat there, surrounded by ripped paper from gifts…

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Gift Ideas For Dads Who Don’t Like Bourbon or BBQ (And Don’t Need Anymore Meat Thermometers)

If you flip open gift catalogs most companies think dads are only interested in grilling meat and drinking bourbon. Don’t get me wrong, Penn loves those things but there are only so many meat thermometers a man needs. Here are…

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Life Beyond Your Phone

When Penn and I were on The Amazing Race, they took away our phones, tablets, laptops… anything we could use to access the outside world or the internet. If we had a question, we couldn’t Google it to get the…

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Things That Mean More To Me At 50

This past month, I turned 50 years old. It’s a number that I feel like I am at times, and at others, I definitely do not. There’s a lot of things that I don’t really care about as much as…

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Panic Attacks, Hurricanes, & An Amazing College Kid

The last two weeks have been a lot in the Holderness house. First, Hurricane Helene devastated the western part of North Carolina, where some of Penn’s family still lives. So many people lost their lives and whole towns were wiped…

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Building Male Friendships

Penn and I fall into gender stereotypes when it comes to friendships. I get deep quickly with fewer friends, and Penn has more surface-level friendships with a lot of people. There are so many examples of deep, vulnerable female relationships…

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Being Black & Having ADHD

When we wrote our book, ADHD Is Awesome, one of the areas we wanted to cover more was the underdiagnosis of ADHD amongst women as well as minority populations. We quickly realized the complexities of both would probably merit their…

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How To Help Western North Carolina

  As a proud North Carolinian, my heart is breaking for the beautiful western part of our state devastated by Hurricane Helene. So many of our mountain communities have been ravaged and our neighbors are in desperate need of help. …

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