HeyJaredM.A.M (Middle-Aged-Mum) Diaries
Chronicles of a British mum in quirky Marin, juggling teenage boys, a job in Tech, tennis, coffee, cocktails, and the chaos of midlife, with a saintly husband who prefers fishing, cooking and motorcycles—30% truth, 70% fiction for entertainment value.
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An Evening of Music I’m Grateful I Heard (opens the original)
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For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about the less dignified corners of middle age: imagining myself as a superhero delivering estrogen patches around Mill Valley and crawling through a recycling bin like a raccoon looking for a missing piece of jewelry. Last Saturday, I went to a fundraiser at a friend’s house and spent much of the evening trying not to picture my eldest son in a military uniform.One of my best friends, Ashley, hosted a fundraiser in her home for Operation Encore, a
M.A.M’s Weekly-ish Wobble: How Much Mum Is Enough? (opens the original)
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This week, Yuliya and I attempted to answer a very simple question: How much time should mothers spend with their children?ShareThree hours? Eight hours? Every waking moment until they leave home? And does hiding in the bathroom scrolling through Instagram count if one of them is shouting questions through the door?The conversation was inspired by entrepreneur and mother of four Emma
"I live here!" (opens the original)
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I wasn’t sure this story was really worthy of a full article, but then I decided that if my boys ever read these ramblings, it is important to include some of the more unhinged episodes when their mother completely lost the plot and then had to shake it off in time to pick them up from school. So, here goes.It was a generic Tuesday at approximately 12:30 p.m., and I was working at The Hivery, the beautiful co-working space where I am lucky enough to be a member. I was typing away, feeling focuse
The Estrogen Avenger (opens the original)
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Every superhero has an origin story.Bruce Wayne lost his parents, Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, and Wonder Woman was raised by Amazon warriors on a magical island (I loved that movie!).Two weeks ago, my neighbor went to Walgreens to collect her estrogen patches and was told they were out of stock.It was not the most cinematic beginning, but this is middle age in a progressive US suburb where our neighborhood villains include the poor suckers working in the pharmacies at our lo
M.A.M's Weekly-ish Wobble: Let Them Eat Oreos (opens the original)
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Can one Oreo bring down an entire school WhatsApp group? Apparently, yes.This week, joined me for another M.A.M’s Weekly-ish Wobble (I changed it to Weekly-ish since Weekly felt too stressful) to discuss Oreogate, the probably scripted but also entirely plausible story of a mother who tried to stop other parents from putting Oreos in their children’s lunchboxes because her daughter was not allowed to have them. We talked about when another family’s lunch became communal business, whether banning
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