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Have you ever had someone try to hold you to a perfect standard that just wasn’t possible to attain? I am a terrible artist, and it would be

One of the toughest seasons of my life was the spring of 2019. My 16-year-old daughter had run away from home multiple times. I could see from her

Middle school students are a different creature. It’s like they hatched from an alien planet. Your sweet, relatively normal child has morphed into a hormone-filled teenager who can

This is something we all dread as parents: I found something on one of my boys’ phones that really bothered me. As I was jotting down some notes

How many prayers have you prayed that haven’t been answered yet? How many requests have you laid before the throne and then moved on, forgetting you had deposited

There’s an old Irish tradition on New Year’s Eve: open your door at midnight and let the old year out and the new year in. This year I’m

I watch the news. I read the reports. I feel the tension at Walmart when all the Lysol products are out of stock. Everyone is talking about the

One day when I was a single mom someone came up to me and commented, “Pam, you used to be funny.” And my reply was, “Well, life used

Posted September 4, 2018 When my children, Jason and Sara, were three and four years old, I realized early on the value of having a routine that incorporated chores.

If you’re like many single moms, you hope to marry one day. And if you choose a husband with young children, like I did, your mom status changes