List: Personal Essays | Curated by Zibby Owens

Feb 5, 2024
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Personal EssaysEssays about motherhood, stress, food, books, writing, and just being a person from 2017 to now.
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A Mother’s Right to SanityStarting the Movement to Just Be a Mom and Not a Family Management Exec
Oct 21, 2017
Oct 21, 2017
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The Importance of Family Dinners: How Can This Nightly Circus Possibly Be So Beneficial?Experts agree that regular family dinners have a gazillion benefits. Kids are less likely to be overweight, obese or have eating disorders…
Nov 6, 2017
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Nov 6, 2017
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Mommy, Can I Have That?Why Saying “No” Eight Million Times Seems to Fall on Deaf Ears
Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017
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It’s Not All Easy, GwynethIt’s 5:30 am, the morning after Thanksgiving. I just got down to the kitchen, three of my four kids trailing behind me, and saw Gwyneth’s…
Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017
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12 Steps to Hosting a Sleepover Without Jumping Out the WindowI was obsessed with having sleepovers when I was a kid. My first sleepover was when I was seven years old and I remember finding it so odd…
Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017
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Why I Hate The Red Zone: This Football Wife and Mom Just Wants to Watch the GameSo I remarried a football fan.
Dec 31, 2017
Dec 31, 2017
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The Big Sick: My Daughter’s Eye Infection Taught Me that Old-Fashioned Fun is the Best of AllWhen I picked up my younger daughter at school on Friday, her pre-school teacher handed me her little pink backpack and said, “You know…
Jan 14, 2018
Jan 14, 2018
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Finding My Voice: How Writing Turned My Childhood Shyness Into a Gift (A Story for Kids and…When I was little, I was really, really shy. There’s a home movie of my fourth birthday party which shows me bursting into tears and…
Feb 11, 2018
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Feb 11, 2018
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Turns Out Calories Really Are OutAre you kidding me?! The New York Times published an article this morning (“How Much Do Calories Count?” By Anahad O’Connor) heralding a…
Feb 22, 2018
Feb 22, 2018
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How I Blew My First Celebrity “Interview” with Katie Holmes at the Num Noms Snackables LaunchI don’t even know why I was invited. I like to think it’s because of my online presence as a parenting writer. Perhaps it’s because of my…
Mar 7, 2018
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Mar 7, 2018
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Too Lucky to Cry on EasterI was just sitting on my daughter’s Princess Aurora pink plastic bathroom step-stool, crying into the palms of my hands, hoping the…
Apr 1, 2018
Apr 1, 2018
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Kate Spade’s Death Makes the End-of-Year School Craziness Seem SaneI couldn’t stop searching about her online. I felt like a psychopath, jumping from one site to another, even playing newsreel clips…
Jun 9, 2018
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Jun 9, 2018
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July 4th for Moms: What I Learned About Letting Go This Independence DayJuly 4th is almost over. The little guys are jumping on the trampoline outside while my husband cooks dinner. I can hear sports radio from…
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 5, 2018
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Two Waze About It: Is Saving 15 Minutes Worth Hurting My Marriage?Waze has changed my life. As someone who is geographically challenged, Waze has fundamentally altered the way I see the world. Before Waze…
Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018
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Gossip Girl Grows Up: Blake Lively and MeI keep seeing beautiful pictures of Blake Lively out promoting her new film, “A Simple Favor.” She is sensational. Radiant. Put together…
Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018
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The Gifts of INHERITANCE: Dani Shapiro and MeDani Shapiro’s latest memoir, INHERITANCE (publication date: 1/15/19) is the best book ever. Full stop. I must confess that Dani is my…
Jan 11, 2019
Jan 11, 2019
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Awards Season Makes This Mom Feel Ancient“Mom, how do you spell ‘tequila?’”
Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019
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My Year of Living Podcast-ly1 Year. 4 Kids. 100 Books and Interviews.
Mar 30, 2019
Mar 30, 2019
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Moving On Up:A Mother Says Goodbye to Her Little Boy and Hello to Her Young Man
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
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School Didn’t Prepare Me for ParentingI’ve been in the ER a lot lately. With four kids, any day one of them isn’t sick is a good day. I’ve had a lot of time to sit and stew…
Jun 27, 2019
Jun 27, 2019