I've Had A Headache My Whole Life by Sabrina Jonkhoff Eight years. The longest relationship I have been in has lasted for eight years. My headache has lasted longer than most things: braces, boyfriends, bad taste in music—they've never lasted this long. But here I am, 23 years old and in the longest relationship of my life. My [...]
We all break. We all cry. We are all human. I am not perfect; no one is. I am broken today. I am struggling to carry the jagged puzzle pieces in my hands. I need to put them back together, but they are all falling out of my hands. There are 302 of them. It's [...]
My Monkey, My Circus She is my daughter. My charge and my responsibility. I get to make the calls, decide the treatment, and set the course of action. She is my monkey. This my my circus. And I haven't the slightest clue how to conduct the show. There are a lot of things that they [...]
There was a trend of creating and posting open letters to people. But we don't play by the rules, right Allie? Fuck rules. So I am writing you a fucking letter and just calling it a letter, because I love you and it's on the Internet. Dear Allie, I wanted to write you this letter [...]
Once upon a time I wrote a post called 3-Year-Olds are Assholes. It went viral on Huff Post Parents with over 380,000 shares on Facebook. Then I wrote a book under the same title, which Booktrope agreed to publish. It has illustrations by the amazing talented Shari Ryan. After 3-Year-Olds are Assholes went viral, the [...]
I'm not a mom blogger, mommy blogger, mom of blogs, blog of moms or anything with blog and mom in the title. Initially, when I began writing Old School/New School Mom, I identified (by default) with the category of people who also wrote online about their children. But, in the end, I started writing my [...]
I grew up in the late 80's/early 90's in New York City. In my entire NYC public school career I had a total of one snow day. It was in 1996 and I was a sophomore at F.H. Laguardia High School. We took the opportunity to go sledding in Riverside Park on the lids of [...]
Four Four years of life. Four years of laughs. Four years of tantrums. Four years of being a small human. Four years of learning. Four years of exploring. Four years of thought. Four years of challenges. Four years of joy. Four years of being... Samara. Happy Birthday! I love you!
