1) Baby Name Nicknames: The Ubiquitous Addie(Link)
Nameberry.com
August 27, 2013
Personal essay about naming my daughter
2) Tasty Baby Names: Food possibilities from Romaine to Kale to Clementine(Link)
Nameberry.com
September 22, 2013
Food-inspired baby names
3) Post-Pregnancy Exercise: The New “Me Time”
Fé Fit
January 21, 2014
Personal essay about the challenges and benefits of post-pregnancy weight loss and exercise
4) Mom for Hire
Fé Fit
February 23, 2014
A humorous take on how mom-acquired skills could assist one’s return to the workplace
5) Southern-Fried Baby Names: Rhett, Scarlett and Savannah(Link)
Nameberry.com
March 9, 2014
Baby-naming article of Southern style baby names
6) How to Work Out at Home (Or in Your Sleep)
Fé Fit
April 7, 2014
Humorous personal essay about parents incorporating daily exercise at home while caring for small children
7) 80s Movie Names: Favorite Names from Favorite Childhood Flicks(Link)
Nameberry.com
October 19, 2014
Baby names inspired by 1980s classic movies
8) Out of the Mouths of Babes
Fé Fit
November 18, 2014
Personal essay about the unique way children view the world and the funny things they say
9) Unusual Girls’ Names: Hidden treasures below the Top 1000(Link)
Nameberry.com
November 23, 2014
Essay about promising girls’ names outside the SSA’s top 1000 names
10) You’re Not a Bad Mom — It’s Just the Morning Rush
Fé Fit
November 28, 2014; republished March 19, 2015
Essay about surviving hectic mornings with small children
11) Upscale Baby Names: The s-ending boys
Nameberry.com
Boys’ baby names that end in -s, are monosyllabic, upscale and (mostly) outside the SSA Top 1000
12) New Year’s Name Resolutions
Nameberry.com
January 20, 2015
How not to name your baby in 2015
13) Girls’ Baby Names: A plethora of P-names
Nameberry.com
March 5, 2015
The best potential P-names for your baby girl
14) “Say #*&%@%” – How to Survive a Family Photo Session with your Sanity (and Marriage) Intact
May 26, 2015
Tips for surviving a family photo session with children in order to achieve the best images possible
15) When My Kid Grows Up, I Hope She Becomes This…
June 27, 2015
Twelve personality traits, values and behaviors that I hope to instill in my children as they grow up.
16) Back to School, Back to Reality…
August 31, 2015
The good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to going back to school.
17) What To Do When Your Baby Name is Loved by (Hundreds of) Thousands
October 5, 2015
Want your little girl to stand out? I make over ten uber popular girls’ names and present a multitude of underused and viable name choices.
18) Ten Popular Boys’ Names Inspire 101 Fresh Picks
October 15, 2015
I present 101 viable and hip boy naming options as alternatives to ten super popular ones.
19) The Clark Griswold Approach to Halloween
October 26, 2015
The pursuit of the perfect Halloween doesn’t always go as planned.
20) Children’s Birthday Parties — The Gift That Keeps on Giving
November 9, 2015
When less is sometimes more when planning your child’s birthday
21) All Roads Lead to the Holidays
December 7, 2015
I recount our non-traditional Thanksgiving adventures in Asheville, NC
22) Christmas 2015: A Postmortem
December 30, 2015
The pursuit of an (almost) stress-free Christmas
23) Chess Pie in My Face, A Big Disgrace
January 6, 2016
The worst kitchen baking disaster ever…
24) I Resolve to be a Couch Potato (and Other Resolutions)
January 18. 2016
Not so traditional New Year’s resolutions