Tag: motherhood
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City Girl Confessions: Knocking Out The Scary Bits
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column in The Glencoe Anchor. It’s the most wonderful time of year…for me. I am positively delighted by Halloween and all of its orange-and-black spooky splendor. I’ve been this way since I was a kid, poring over costume ideas and scouting haunted houses while immersing myself in scary books…
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Convos With Writers: 11 Questions with Amanda Simkin
‘Chicago mom’ is a term synonymous with Amanda Simkin. When I was freelancing for parenting websites, our paths kept crossing in such unique ways that by the time we officially met I thought, “Wait- how have we not been friends for years?!” Good news, we are friends, and I glean inspiration from this mama-of-two everyday-…
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Three Simple Things
I’m meeting my mom at the Chicago Botanic Gardens for our annual Mother’s Day stroll and lunch. Despite the fact that it’s 40 degrees (cringe), I’m hoping to bask in the tulip bunches. We put in the order for our kitchen cabinets to go into production and DANG, it’s starting to get very real that…
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A Most Enduring Mother’s Day Gift
In honor of Mother’s Day, I’m sharing a favorite column of mine written in 2016 for The Glencoe Anchor. Its words are some of my favorite as it pertains to this holiday and the mothers and mother-like figures we celebrate. I feel as though I’m drowning in gift guides. Each day brings about an email,…