Wife On The Go

There’s a growing movement to replace the face of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with the face of a woman.  While I feel a little sorry for poor old Andrew Jackson, I can think of some great American women who would certainly be deserving of the honor.  There’s a list floating around the internet […]

Type in “Common Core” into any search engine and you will get hundreds upon hundreds of pages of information explaining the process or hate mail directed at Common Core.  And it is not just parents who are up-in-arms against these tests, it’s also the teachers.  Teachers are the ones who bear the brunt of parents’ […]

The shame began as sorrow last August, when Michael Brown was gunned down in the streets of Ferguson, MO, by a white police officer.  It grew a little more when, in my own backyard, John Crawford was shot and killed in a Walmart.  It intensified when the video of Eric Garner was released, showing him […]

Not sure if the cold and snow is getting to me, but I am becoming very short-tempered waiting for Spring to arrive.  Tired of the lack of sunlight, sick of snow, tired of school being delayed or cancelled.   Seems I’m not the only one.  I posed the “pet peeve” question to my Facebook posse […]

It started out innocently enough.  Kanye West collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney and the two performed “FourFiveSeconds” along with Rihanna at the Grammys.  In the Twittersphere, tweets popped up questioning who this “up-and-comer” Paul McCartney is.   “I don’t know who this Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this man a career […]

  Too often, any story written about teenagers, especially high school students, is negative.  Rapists on the football team, teens getting behind the wheel after drinking, bullying digitally.  And while, yes, these topics are important, our teens are so much more.  The differences between people of my generation (oh, God….did I just say that?) and […]

  A little over a year ago was the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. march on Washington and his “I have a Dream” speech.  This speech is as relevant today as it was on August 28, 1963 and some of his words still ring true today.  It is disheartening that, in 50+ […]

  I have advocated against domestic violence for a number of years. When I attended college, I volunteered for an organization, CaseWatch.  Volunteers, like myself, sat in the courtroom during domestic violence hearings and rated the attorneys and the judges on a variety of different criteria, including rulings by the judges. We reported back to […]

  When I started dating my boyfriend, it was a learning experience.  My boyfriend has 4 children, ranging in ages from 8 to 15 (2 girls/2 boys); a different family dynamic entirely.  It was overwhelming at first to witness the scheduling and coordinating it takes to keep his house running vs. keeping mine running.  In […]

What would you do if you knew a mother was abusing or neglecting her child? What if you saw this child on a daily basis and could see that her mother wasn’t caring for her the way she should be cared for? Read my letter to the mom I know needs to do better for […]

  This UK Mom is putting her children’s weaning into their own hands. They get to say when they want to stop breastfeeding. She has two children and they will both continue to breastfeed for as long as keep asking for it. Read her story on the next page.

Emily Wax-Thibodeaux had breast cancer and a double mastectomy to rid herself of her cancer and help prevent it from returning. This is a tough choice all on it’s own, but one that Emily felt would ensure her survival so that she could be there for her newborn son and watch him grow up. When Emily […]

Break the mold! Be unique! Be who you are! This video is a commercial for GoldieBlox toy company which is producing toys and dolls for young girls which are actually action figures and adventure sets, and whatnot. These new dolls are not beauty queen dolls or barbies, but dolls with purpose which inspire the self […]

My heart goes out to Brittany Maynard! At 29 years old to hear that you are going to die in 6 months from brain cancer and there is nothing you can do about it is heart-breaking and devastating. I think we all should have the right to end our own pain and suffering in cases […]

  Hayleigh Black, a 16 year old girl, was sent home on the first day of school reportedly violating the dress code by having bright red hair. What? And it’s not like she came to school and had suddenly dyed her hair, she has had this same color hair for the past 3 years! I […]