The WLYC Blog

TRIGGER WARNING: SA, DRUG USE CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault, mention of cocaine use God Damn I cannot drink caffeine! I added one little caffeinated pod to my decaf coffee this morning and I swear I feel as though I’ve snorted...

TRIGGER WARNING: SA  Sexual assault. Unwanted advances. Non-consensual sexual language, touching, or “come ons.” Sexual harassment. “Cat calling.” And at it’s worst, sexual abuse that leads to rape. It seems to always begin the same way; a man sees a...

TRIGGER WARNING: SA, CSA CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault, childhood sexual assault The first time I remember being sexually assaulted I was ten. At the time I didn’t realize that it was “not normal” that not all little girls were subjected...

I’ve been a mom for thirty-two years, thirty-three if you include the actual carrying of my first. Which I guess is when one becomes a mom, right? Do you think? I count it, but many don’t, which I find odd...

Happy Hump Day Mommas! Hope you’ve had a fab week since you popped in to read my last post. I don’t know how your mothering is going, but I have to confess that mine has not been going all that...

Okay Mommas. Listen up. It’s Wednesday, AKA Hump Day, AKA Wine Wednesday, AKA Wellness Wednesday! Whatever the middle of the week means to you, I use it as my opportunity to check myself, and if need be line up a...

Sometimes in life things are just a little bit out of our depths. As a mom there were many times when I found myself in a parenting situation that I didn’t have the tools to handle, or the knowledge to...

Man, oh man is it ever hard to fit taking care of yourself into an already jam-packed schedule. No matter the age of your kids it seems like there is always a task that jumps out of nowhere requiring that...

If you’re reading this it’s because you’re a parent, and you don’t need me to tell you that being a parent is a big job. A huge all-encompassing responsibility. So much hinges on how we raise them, and we’re all...

This year I turned 50 years old. The Big 5-0 – Fifty. I remember, rather vividly, being nine and hearing that a teacher at my school just turned 50. I couldn’t help but feel that that was so old. It...

One of the things I find most fascinating about being a woman is how there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in a day — enough hours to adequately take care of oneself or to check off the items on...

I’ve written many times about becoming an empty nester. Every single time I write an article that claims that my husband of 31 years and I are “officially” empty-nesters, the universe gives us another opportunity to live with one or...

Life is full of ups and downs. If you’re a woman of a certain age, like me, there’s a very good chance that you’ve spent a large part of your life caring for other people or managing a household. It’s...

To inject or not to inject is the million-dollar question. Everybody is doing it – or are they? I mean if you flip through a fashion magazine it seems rare to see a natural lip, nose or a forehead with...

I encourage those of you who are still happily in the throes of their youth and think a dry vagina is a million years away to read this article anyway because, like it or not, we all end up there...

‘Tis the time of year when pretty much all of us look back and reflect. Some of us have met every single goal we set for ourselves; others started and changed course early on in the new year for various...

Chances are if you’re reading this, it’s because you’re alive and, if you’re alive, you are the daughter or son of someone. You’re probably also the wife, the lover, the partner, the best friend, the mother, father, sister or brother...

I recall reading with great fascination a New York Times article back in May 2017, where acclaimed children’s author Amy Krouse Rosenthal wrote her husband’s soon-to-be dating profile. Or actually it was more like a want ad. She seemed to...

I spend a lot of time with my mom these days, as she’s taken over the executive assistant tasks for me and my husband, a role that our middle and youngest used to “enjoy” for us. It was great, in...

They say that breaking up is hard to do but if, like me, you’re in a long-term relationship, I’d have to say that staying together is harder to do. I swear there are some days that I look at my...

In June 2016, I began writing a daily blog. It was an opinion blog, based off the monologue portion of Arsenio Hall’s late-night show, where he joked about “things that make me go hmmm.” I loved his talk show, hell,...