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7 Reasons Aging Is Actually Awesome

There was a time when I thought “getting older” meant giving things up — energy, youth, collagen in my neck. (Okay, I do miss that last one.) But lately, I’ve realized something wild: I wouldn’t go back to my twenties…

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3 Things I Hope Kids Take Away From Our Book

When we started writing All You Can Be with ADHD, Penn said something that stuck with me: “I want this to be the book I wish I had as a kid.” It wasn’t until college that Penn was diagnosed with…

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10 Questions to Ask Your College Kid

There are few things more emotional than Parents Weekend. You spend weeks counting down, imagining the reunion, the hugs, the chance to see your college kid thriving in their new world—and then, suddenly, they’re right in front of you. (And…

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5 Lessons From A Broadway Legend

One of the greatest gifts of this weird internet life has been finding friends in unexpected places. Alex Lacamoire and Ileana Ferreras Lacamoire are exactly that for us. (Yes—that Alex Lacamoire. The Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning musical genius behind…

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Not an Empty Nest, An Open Door

I thought I was doing pretty well in the weeks after college drop-off. After all, I managed to make it two whole days without crying. Two days! I even bragged about it to my friends, like one of those “days…

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What I Learned About Gen Z From My Son

I love being a Gen X Mom. I’ll proudly admit I once got very excited about a new CD tower and spent hours organizing it by genre. Our generation had to deal with calling crushes on landlines and talking to…

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I’m In My Birding Era

Hobbies when you become middle-aged are fascinating. They come on strong and suddenly without warning. It’s like we all spun a wheel, landed on something like genealogy, quilting, or gardening and that became our entire personality. (We actually made a…

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60 Tips Before Your Kid Goes To College

I’ve always been a to-do list person. Like, color-coded tabs, shared Google Docs, packing cubes for packing cubes… that kind of person. So you can only imagine the lists I’m packing as I prepare to send my first child off…

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I’m Not Crying, I Have An Eye Twitch 

As you may have heard, our daughter recently graduated high school. People keep asking me, “How are you doing?” with that tilted head, soft voice thing, like I’m about to crumble into a pile of tears at any moment. But…

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10 Wild Things About The 90s

When I think back to life in the 90s, I realize that we used to live life on the edge. Remember when your parents just… let you go places? Alone? With other 14-year-olds? Without a cell phone or any parental…

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