"The BVTMB is getting real this week about a sometimes taboo, but important topic...S-E-X! Our team is sharing the good, the bad, and the...
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
While the origin of this proverb is up for discussion, the concept itself is a familiar one...
The Meaning of Valentine's Day
I don’t need a Valentine, a paper with a heart.
I don’t need some Hallmark words with baby Cupid art.
I don’t...
After six years of silence, Adele finds her voice, offering up the ultimate divorced moms’ anthem in “Easy On Me,” the first single from...
8 years ago today I walked down the aisle in the middle of a beautiful pecan grove…in Phoenix where you can walk down the...
To write about love is ambitious. The topic has been explored through art and writing for arguably as long as humans have existed. Love...
This isn’t the story of a marriage broken by some Jerry Springer-worthy love triangle or a deadbeat dad. I didn’t “fall out of love”...
If you’re like my husband and me, you know how tricky it is to manage a household budget with kids. We are very organized...
I don’t know what I’m doing. There. I said it… Are you happy, world???
This dad’s life is basically a series of hot messes that...
When my husband and I brought our oldest son home from the hospital, I just wasn’t right. I didn't know at the time, but...
I often ask myself if I’ve been good enough or if we have enough to make it through the day.
Was dinner good enough or...
In the last few years I've stopped making a New Year's resolution.
I make enough resolutions throughout the year, that by the time New Years...
In every stage of our lives, we are offered advice. As teenagers, we are encouraged to choose a particular college because it was so-and-so’s...
My little brother passed away about four years ago. Every time I think about our complicated relationship, I think about our strange family tree,...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
