As a stay-at-home mother of energetic three year old twin boys, the discovery of “Mommy and Me” classes made me happier than non-chafe nursing pads. I’d get out of a house so baby-proofed I couldn’t watch my own TV, and the boys would get exercise.
Humor
Please Remain Seated With Your Seat Belt Tightly Fastened
Boulder Lifestyle, 6/14.
With extended family on both coasts requiring multiple flights per year, my husband and I lived for the day our identical twin boys could entertain themselves while traveling.
How I Learned the Value of Ambidextrous Breasts
During my pregnancy, I complained about lost brain cells and how relieved I would be to regain them once my twins were born. The experienced mothers fell to the floor in collective hysteria.
Table Manners
*UPDATE* Now on Multiples Illuminated
Boulder Lifestyle, 5/14.
Pooping in a park in broad daylight? Refusing to get in the car until a hot Brazilian nanny kisses them goodbye?
Foodies In The Woods
Boulder Lifestyle 2/14.
I am not a foodie. I have food poisoned myself, realized after six months in a new condo that the oven didn’t work, and over-cooked canned chowder so badly it exploded like foam out of a fire extinguisher on lifting the pot lid.
Within the first few months of dating my eventual husband, he invited me on a camp-out in the mountains with his college friends. There was just one caveat.
“There’s a food contest,” he said, eyeing me skeptically.
Wine Tasting 101
Appeared in Boulder Lifestyle Magazine 8/13.
At the university I attended, there was a school of hotel management. One of the most popular courses amongst non-hotel students was “Introduction to Wines.” We liberal arts and engineering majors snickered like fifth graders taking a second-grade spelling test. Rumor had it you sat in a huge lecture hall and sampled wines all afternoon. How hard could that be?
These Mothers Wanna Win!
When I first moved to Boulder from Los Angeles, I was a fit, athletic mother of twin toddlers. I thought I looked great. When asked by other mothers, “What do you do?” I’d proudly respond, “I’m a fitness instructor!” Published in Colorado Babies magazine.
Riding the Volcano
It’s day three of our 310 mile bike ride around Hawaii’s Big Island, and I’m feeling stoked. The landscape resembles an alien planet with olive green ferns and lichen framing black lava boulders.
Big Moguls, Bad Hairday
“Not listening to your intuition,” the man said.
He was answering my question about the number one cause of accidents in outdoor active and wilderness sports.
Please Don’t Ask Me To Feed Your Cat
2nd Place Winner, Boulder Writers’ Workshop Comedy Contest.
What kind of a mother would deny her children a pet?