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We Don’t Need To Whisper The Word Menopause Anymore

I remember watching the news report, 20 years ago, talking about a study we now know to be deeply flawed. The study claimed a link between hormone replacement therapy and an increased cancer risk. Women everywhere stopped HRT overnight.  My…

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I’m 50… In A Year

I’m at the point in my life when there is probably more behind me than in front of me. While my default setting seems to put me in a place of depression or anxiety – I’m bizarrely excited about whatever…

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What Makes Exceptional Families Tick?

I guess you could say I’m in the “second-guessing” stage of parenting. Penn and I are very aware that we don’t have many more years “on the record” with our kids. Especially with a child who is about to go…

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Why ADHD Is Different For Girls & Women

When we wrote the book, ADHD Is Awesome, we got to meet a lot of you on our book tour. In reading the book, many of you with ADHD felt seen for the first time. And some of you had…

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What’s Up With DEI?

Let’s start with this. Our corner of the internet is a place to laugh, but it’s also a safe space to get curious and learn. Currently, there is a hot button issue in our nation around the rollback of Diversity,…

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Parenting Isn’t About You

When we wrote our book Everybody Fights, So Why Not Get Better At It we talked about magic words in a relationship. There are phrases you can say during discussions or arguments that help bring down the temperature or help…

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We’re Going All In

Historically, around the second week in January, I have a freakout. This has gotten so predictable that I had to get my 2025 calendar early so I could write the words “don’t freak out” right around now. See, we’ve been…

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Do What Matters

I will admit something: I get hit with bursts of energy where I NEED to organize my life and schedule. I’ll buy a new planner, and color-code my life. Then, inevitably a week later, I get too busy to follow…

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Being A Hallmark Movie Writer

If you’ve watched us for a while, you know that we’ve made some very fun parodies about Hallmark holiday movies. It’s always a high-powered executive who comes back to their quaint hometown, falls in love, and starts a new chapter.…

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Missing Boring Elections

Our daughter in high school is taking a class on American Government right now (which is pretty exciting during a presidential election.) She has become interested in watching old clips of debates from previous elections. (Think Reagan/Carter or Bush/Clinton eras…)…

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