Kristi Pahr

I have to go shopping tomorrow and I’m dreading it.

Once your doctor or midwife has cleared you for sex and you’re feeling ready to get back in the saddle, so to speak, there are a few things you’ll need to mentally prep yourself for.

Soundgarden was part of something bigger, something that changed everything.

As a mother of boys, I find this trend disturbing. Yes, we need to build up our girls. We need to empower them and teach them that they are capable and viable and powerful — that they are smart and that they matter. But we cannot devalue our boys in the process.

My version of self-care is a little less “best life” and a little more “no life”, but it works for me.

It seems like everyone is an introvert these days.

I found my first gray hair when I was 12 years old. Twelve. I had gray hair before I had a period.

“Is she Black or white?” I asked another mom who was describing a little girl in her son’s class that she thought my family might know.

I know how it feels to not contribute financially to the household. I know how it feels to be completely dependent on someone else for my financial stability. I know how it feels to know that if something dreadful and unthinkable happened, I’d be completely destitute. And it’s terrifying.

I’m frazzled, y’all; I’m a mess. I’m a basketcase of anxiety and stress and I need to chill.