

My sister, Gianna, moved to Italy a few weeks ago to pursue her master’s degree. She’ll be gone for a year: traveling, eating, living. Her leaving changed my world dramatically. As a way to keep in touch, we decided to write to one another via blog posts from time to time. The series has been [...]
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I’m worried I might be failing my daughter. I guess this is something every parent on the planet is probably concerned with at one point or another. As far as two year olds go, she is pretty happy. She usually looks something like this: OK, maybe that’s a lie. She’s happy as long as I [...]
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I loathe having my weight taken. I mean, let’s be honest. We all believe that the scale is one of the worse inventions known to man. Even my OB agrees, but he still insists on monitoring my weight at each and every appointment. Something about the health of the baby. It’s probably just a twisted [...]
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My husband and I have long joked about having a “handbook” to our marriage. I suppose that whether they realize it or not, everyone has one. The handbook is a running list of things couples know about one another, the likes, dislikes, and everything in between. We just happen to talk about ours as something [...]
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Things are not well in Bay Area. It seems my dear blogging partner is in serious need of help. I’m thinking intervention—she is really spinning out of control. Social Media, more specifically Facebook, is taking over Francesca’s life, to the point of her sister banning her from her page. This is what I saw on [...]
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Although there are nine years that separate my sister, Gianna, and me, we are practically the same person. We think, talk, act, and laugh alike. We even have the same taste in clothes. There is one topic that divides us like the Red Sea: Social Media. For years, Gianna has stood firm in her anti-social media beliefs [...]
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Before I started having kids, I decided that there were certain things in life that I wanted for them. These goals were not overly grand; nothing as serious as becoming president, achieving world peace, or finding a cure to cancer. No, my ideas were much simpler; more along the lines of the everyday. For my [...]
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I have come to a realization. It happened just the other day. While putting away my kids’ toys, it dawned on me that I am not the girl I used to be. Gone is the 20-something career focused girl with hopes of securing a VP title in corporate America. She’s no more. In her place [...]
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