How a simple question can setback years of self-love. — We were getting ready to go on our dream trip to Ireland and Scotland. In what universe does that happen for a 38-year-old mother of two under 10 and her husband? This lucky gal! As we loaded our luggage into the shuttle that would transport us from the long-term airport…

The character that made us all Cillian Murphy fans — Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you may have heard about the recent box office phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” NBC News explains, “Both “Barbie,” released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and “Oppenheimer,” released by Universal Pictures, blew away box office projections. “Barbie” broke records during its opening run, making $155…

Some things stay with us a lifetime and shape the people we become — I’ve been out of high school for 20 years now. A lot has happened in that time — I’ve graduated college, got married, had children of my own. Yet, sometimes it still feels like yesterday. I can still remember clipping my thick bangs back so they’d be out of my…

I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. Well, not really, I’m just a regular chick who two little dudes call Mom. …

And helped other moms in the process — When I was 8 years old, my parents welcomed their third and final child — a boy, my little brother. My older sister and I were pretty excited to have a new little brother. After all, it’d been just us girls for so long, and what little girl doesn’t want…

My grandmother had a powerful impact on my life. — Afterglow By: Helen Lowrie Marshall I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of…

This morning, a local woman asked her Facebook friends where she could get more information on trick-or-treating in her town. I couldn’t…

Not for the weak of heart — It takes a strong man to love a strong woman. A man that can handle the fire that burns deep in her heart. He knows that she is a wildflower, untamed and always growing. …

Matthew Perry — an actor who touched our hearts and tickled our funny bone — I’m a child of the ’90s. I grew up in arguably the best decade ever to grow up in, and as I write this now I can’t help but smile. While I’d love for this story to be about the merits of growing up in that decade, I hate that…