Here’s fair warning: A Girls Night Out is imminent. You might consider attending GTWoman’s Ultimate Girls Night Out, but mostly we recommend that you attend any GNO you can get your hands on and watch the magic unfold. While there’s plenty of magic that can happen at a GNO, we mostly applaud the magic that […]
Author: Kandace Chapple
Motherhood: The Yoda Song
The 1985 Yoda Song started it. If you have kids who love Star Wars, be sure to introduce them to Weird Al Yankovic’s song all set to the “Lola” song. (Which is, unfortunately, catchy.) The kids played it over and over. And then they asked for more music like it. So. I’ve taken it one […]
The bike ride from hell (a.k.a. Log Jumping)
So. The invite came in from the boys to go biking. Last fall I was all about running around with the boys. I was at the peak of my biking fitness (a.k.a. when I’m least addicted to peanut butter bars) and willing to chase them through the woods. Yesterday, however, was a different story. I […]
Motherhood: Running with kids at home
I’ve started running, something I swore I’d never do. Why? I like the way I feel when I roar back into the house in the morning with the taste of sweat in my mouth, my tank sticking to my back, grit on my face and a blue bandana flopping on my head. And that it’s […]
Book Excerpt: Birth of son
Here, an excerpt from my novel and work-in-progress: Her mother had bought her a fluffy red robe with yellow and brown and white kitties embroidered on the sleeves and back. She would wear it as she paced the hospital floors, waiting for her first son to be born. She would wear it later, when the […]