I recently entrusted the care of my daughter (including outfit selection!) to her father for two whole days, while I in turn slipped away for a girls’ weekend in Blacksburg, Virginia, where I experienced a series of strange phenomena. First, I practiced a concept known as “going out,” which involved donning skinny jeans, a sparkly…
I love a brand new, spiral-bound notebook. To me, its unspoiled pages are a blank canvas. Freshly-sharpened pencils? An unwritten story. An updated wardrobe, the chance to paint a new image. All of which is why, at the end of every summer growing up, I actually got excited when my mom took me back-to-school shopping….
I’m a full-time working mom whose child attends daycare. I am also a germaphobe. I hold these truths to be self-evident. As well as thoroughly incompatible. When I arrived to pick up my then-four-month-old daughter following her first day at the childcare center she attends, I found her just waking up from a nap in…
As tapped into the online world as I am, it really is laughable that I own neither smartphone nor iDevice. But I don’t. And despite the emergence in recent years of a cultural wireless revolution, I’ve been okay with that. After all, you can’t miss what you don’t have. Right?
Hello! I'm Kristin, a self-proclaimed city girl now living the rural life with my husband, daughter, and a black cat named Boo in eastern West Virginia – or as I like to spin it, the far western suburbs of D.C.
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