My Latest Articles
My most recent articles are linked below. Thanks for reading!
New Marble Book Focuses on Peltier Brand
When a Non-Dog Person Loses a Dog
I Can’t Stay Silent Any Longer
A Simple Family Christmas Tradition
Can You Forgive the Unforgiveable?
Dead Horse Bay: Trash or Treasure?
The Witch In the Maryland Woods
Sea Glass Treasures: Tough to Judge
College Marching Band Mom for Dummies
London in Fragments: A Mudlark’s Treasure
Fireworks Are Mostly Overrated
Learning to Give Zero Fucks in Life
The Days are Long, The Years Are Short
Don’t Let a Stranger Wax Your Ladygarden
Chilly Hillary or the Warmer Bern?
So You Need a Wedding Playlist?
How to Write When You’re Not Writing
Extreme Sea Glass Hunting at Davenport Beach California
364 Days of Delightful Nothingness
Throw Out Your Crap, Americans
I Didn’t Feel Fit to Be a Mom (for Salon.com)
Pretending to Believe in Santa
Amy Doesn’t Care That Amy’s Naked (For Momsmack.com)
My Sister Did Not Pass Away (for Salon.com)
An Interview With Maryland’s Frank DeFilippo
The Little Piece of Sea Glass That Couldn’t
You Are Judged By Your School Supplies
Five Cool Things About Getting Older
Great Blue Herons Don’t Do Selfies
Judging Other Women Makes Us Judge You
The Ethics of Video Streaming Apps (at Center For Digital Ethics)
My Vagina Was Bored at The Male Stripper Movie
Happy Birthday to My Best Friend
How to Survive Amusement Park Chaperoning
The Naming of Sea Glass Colors
How a Six-Month Separation Saved Our Marriage (for Salon)
Scenes From a Baltimore Book Festival
The Endless Quest for Decent TV
Dream Job: International Beachcomber
Abortion is None of Your Business
When Presidential Candidates Ignore Science
You Can’t Ground Your Kid For Being Gay
The Elusive Nature of Writing Inspiration
A Wasted Friday on the Internet
The Earth Takes Its Stuff Back
Hey Thunder Review, Stop Stealing Splice Today’s Content
Too Stiff in One Way and Not the Other (a review of the Fifty Shades of Grey film)
Keep Your Unimmunized Kids Out of My Kid’s Public School
The Myth of Fort Bragg’s Sea Glass Beach
Embracing The Facebook Cleanse
The Time I Failed at Meeting Warren Buffett
Breaking Up With the Little Black Dress
King of Prussia is Upside Down
The Fragile Nature of Beachcombing (for Salt & Water magazine)
Don’t Tell Me to Hang in There
45 Observations of Sesame Street
Sea Glass Seeding Versus Tumbling
Brief Observations of Hillary Clinton
Can We Blame the Cloud? (for the Center for Digital Ethics)
I Don’t Understand Nice People
Buying Twitter Followers is Idiotic
Why I Don’t Work in Customer Service
Novel Writing: The Halfway Mark
We As Parents Are The Giving Tree
The Zen of Sea Glass (for Salt and Water magazine)
The Internet Is Ruining My Hobby
Breaking Up With Family Members
Who Are You Online (for Center for Digital Ethics)
The Scarlet Letter Society Chapter One
Beards and Wind Chimes Need to Go
A Writer Goes Under the Covers (for Barnes & Noble)
Why You Shouldn’t Have Sex With a Jacuzzi
Is There Anything Wrong With Parental Bribery?
My Very Short Time as a Stripper
Is There Such a Thing as Objectifying Men?
Saint Michaels Craft Distillery Bottles Whiskey and Rum
11 Fictional Characters I Wanted to Be in the 70s-80s
20th Anniversary of Motherhood
Article for Chesapeake Family on my daughter’s World Series of Birding team.
BlogHer featured an article I originally wrote for Splice. Check it out: “11 Ways To Be a Better Blogger”
I wrote a piece for the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy called “Effects of Graphic Photo Use in Social Media”
Microbeads Are Freaking Me Out
If You’ve Ever Been a Waitress
The Douchebag Coach Vs. the Douchebag Parent
A Lethal Scandal Drinking Game
10 Things You Can Learn From 24 Hours in New York
Obama and Comedy Between Two Ferns
11 Ways to Be a Better Blogger
The Latest Reason To Hate Facebook
From High School Musical to Keeping Her Baby
Not Keeping Score in Kids’ Sports
Terrell Suggs Better Extend His Baltimore Ravens Contract
Breaking Up With a Dream House
5 Reasons Not to Make New Year’s Resolutions
The Innocence of the Rainbow Loom
Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Fox News Anchors
Tending the Bridge (for Chesapeake Inspired)
Judging Splice Today’s Writing Contest
Which Christmas Misfit Are You?
Yes, Goddammit, There Is a Santa Claus
How to Survive a Dysfunctional Family Thanksgiving
I Could Take You to Jail, Ma’am
The Chocolate Covered Cherry Club
15 Seconds to Decide If Your Life is Worthwhile
My Stint as a Sex Toy Reviewer
My Short Time as a Fast Food Grunt
The Biggest Character on Tilghman Island
Hiring Veterans Just Makes Sense
Birding is Not a Whimsical Hobby
A Single Meal (book review: Herman Koch’s The Dinner)
Down With Halloween Helicopter Parents
Trick or Treating Etiquette Tips
No, I Wouldn’t Kill to Have Her Body
Conspiracy Theories About Fainting Pregnant Women
Funniest Tweets About Facebook Shutdown
Talking to Your Teen About Sex
Five News Stories That Will Make You Believe in Zombies
Every Single Episode of Wife Swap
Kids Are Dying From Cyberbullying
Baltimore Museums Aren’t Boring
Beachcombing: A Sense of Community
The Humor in a Government Shutdown
Sangria Conversations: What’s a Gunt?
The Worst Breakfast I’ve Ever Loved
12 Ridiculous BuzzFeed Headlines
Top 8 Things Wacky Conservative Blogs Have in Common
God, Please Tell Me the Pope is Gay
Don’t Mess With the Pumpkin Latte, Starbucks
Fox News Must Fire Todd Starnes
The Politics of Hip-Hop Cardio
The 10 Sleaziest Tweets So Far This Month from The Fake McCain
Lessons in Motherhood From a Spider
Here’s What Self-Involved Feminists Should Worry About
Why Are You Calling Out Fat Lesbians?
Perusing StumbleUpon Categories
If You Linkbait Troll, You Are a Bad Person
Are You a Good Feminist or a Bad Feminist?
My Job Would Be Perfect If I Hated My Boss
Dentist Offices: The Great Unifier
5 Reasons Office Space is a Cult Classic
Teaching is All About the Glasses
Bruce Willis is Smoking Hot in The Fifth Element
8 Ways to Avoid Screwing Up Instagram
Erotica Review: Sex Worm Apocalypse
My Love-Hate Relationship With Diet Coke
I Want to Kill a Placenta Tree
Candy Crush Cheats Equal Having No Life
Are You Standing Up When You Pee?
7 Reasons The Breakfast Club is the Best Movie of the 1980s
How to Get High Speed Internet in 2013
Memoirs of a Girl Scout Leader
It’s My Birthday, and Who Gives a Fuck?
Sometimes You Embarrass Your Kid Just By Existing
10 Ways to Fail at Traveling In Ireland
Luck o’ The Irish? Or Just Jameson?
Keeping Score in Little League Baseball
Messing Up a Girl’s Lady Parts Isn’t Cool
The Passing of Orlando Ridout V is Maryland’s Loss
10 Things I Hate About Facebook
The Not-So-Wonderful Wizard of Oz
I Learned About Sex From Salt-n-Pepa
Top Ten Reasons I Hate Mommybloggers
Gone Girl: A Chilling Roller Coaster Read
The Titanic Exhibit Experience
What’s Your Favorite Christmas Song?
On Trespassing, Sea Glass, and Madness
Gifts That Will Never Be Opened
The Unintentional Martha Stewart Christmas
My Brief Career In Shoplifting
10 Ways to Embrace Your Inner Grinch
Ding Dong, Is Lori Really Dead?
The Bay: A Toxic Mix of Frankenfish and Government
Hurricane Preparedness: Why I Suck
There’s An Addictive App for That
10 Things I Learned From the Current Issue of Cosmo
Here’s to You, Mr. Overly Enthusiastic Dick Pic Sender
Maryland: Eastern Shore vs. Western Shore
How to Lose 50 Pounds By Eating Bacon
Hope Springs is a So-So Girlfriend Movie
The Maryland Renaissance Festival is Actually Fun
5 Reasons I Suck at Writing a Novel
Five Kids’ Movies That Don’t Suck
The Best Campaign of This Election Year
Keynote Smackdown: Martha Stewart vs. Katie Couric
Top of the Lungs Music Therapy
Topper Moms Are Bottom Feeders
Magic Mike Movie Review By My Vagina
Nora Ephron’s Writing Inspiration for Women
Rock of Ages is All About Moist Panties
10 Reasons I’m Too Old for Camping
Progress is the Enemy of Masculinity
What’s the Problem With Whoring?
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