Thank your for using your precious time to peruse this blog.  I can’t promise you I am going to change the world, but I can promise that I will be sickeningly honest, self-deprecating, witty (at least I think so), and maybe even make you feel better about your own problems…

I am a mom of three adorable and often terribly behaved kiddos trapped in suburbia. I am dying to pop out one more baby before my biological clock says Hell No, but the hubby is planning a furtive vasectomy.  My hubby is an incredibly decent guy, by the way, and we genuinely love each other.  I know, gag right?  Don’t worry, we still get on each other’s nerves.

I am a professor of English at a community college and was chairperson of the massive department for half a decade.  During that time, I learned strategies for managing conflict, became an extremely effective leader, emailed through active labor during two of my pregnancies, and was seriously the woman who DID IT ALL with a pasted on smile….I was the glowing golden child of the college, the multitasking queen who could send emails, comfort an irate student over the phone, schedule next month’s play dates, and pump at the same time.  Until… I sizzled into a pool of burn out from which I am still trying to resurrect myself.  Damn, constantly striving for work and mom perfection is exhausting!

So why do you care?  Because as I navigate parenting, career shifts, marital disarray, neurosis, and some super shaky self-esteem, you get to read all about it.  My deepest hope is that my candor will some how move you. My strep infected kiddo is throwing up all over the couch, so this is it. For now….