What is a victim? Specifically, what comes to your mind when you conjure up an image of an abused woman of domestic violence?
Posts by Ma
I’m Ma - a mother, a musician and artist, a comic, a wine drinker, blogger of www.EverydayWithMa.com and a sometimes coupon clipper. I love to sing and draw and make people laugh. I love snowstorms and homemade macaroni and cheese. While I’m passionate about family, mothering and the world around me, I am fully aware that I screw up on a regular basis. But nothing gets us through the screw ups like extra love, hearty laughs and sometimes a glass (or three!) of Cabernet Sauvignon.
The Right to Bodily Autonomy
It’s time to trust a woman to know what’s best for her own body without anybody else’s say so. Our culture has become ingrained with making judgments on women. It is full of decisions on what is acceptable for her to do with her body. Society allows, tolerates and often expects more when it comes to her sexuality. Yet when it comes to her health and function; she isn’t as highly regarded and decisions appear to be made for her.
28 Years Since Anita Hill and I Still Feel Silenced
The Anita Hill hearings were 28 years ago. Since then, the Kavanaugh hearings and Alabama’s abortion bans have had me closely examine the fate of women in America. I’ve discovered an underground language of sorts, unfair defaults within our society that no one wants to talk about and a continued silence among women that needs to end.
Homeschooling the Stock Market
Some of the things I love about homeschooling are the opportunities I have to learn with my children about all sorts of big ideas – including our latest – the stock market. How did this subject most recently bubble to the…
4 Ways to Better your Resume
You got the interview. Congratulations! Now what? How about 4 ways to better your resume? You need what I call the “ILM” file. It’s the evidence every professional should have at their fingertips to help come from a position of strength. The…
6 Things About OCD that I Wish People Realized
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly known as OCD, can be such a challenging diagnosis. I’ve talked about my personal experience about OCD here. Part of what makes it so challenging is that there are so many misconceptions about what OCD really…
Can Homeschool Kids Get “Socialization”?
If ‘socialization’ isn’t THE number one question about homeschooling, I don’t know what is. Public schooling has been the norm for so long, doing outside of the norm might ‘screw up’ the kids. Might make them…weird. Maybe they will become…
The Disposable Friend
Loyal…and Disposable So, I’ve seen the movie Bad Moms and I thought it was great. In fact, I thought it was hysterical. I think the thing that made that movie so great was the fact that it was just so damn….relatable. We’ve…
