For the Woman in Your Life Who’s Basically Fine and Absolutely Thriving
We spend a lot of time talking about gifting for the hard seasons. The get well soon. The thinking of you. The I heard what happened and I wanted to…
for-her
The Gift I Wish Someone Had Given Me When My Daughter Was Sick
When Sherry got sick people were incredibly kind. They showed up for her in the ways people show up — the meals and the messages and the cards and the…
What to Give the Woman Who Has Already Survived the Hard Part
There’s a woman in your life who has already been through something. You know who she is. You don’t always talk about it directly — that’s not how it works…
Gifting With Intention: Why the Right Words on a Shirt Hit Different
I’ve been thinking about why some gifts land and some don’t. Not the obvious reasons — price, effort, timing. Those matter but they don’t explain the whole thing. I’ve seen…
She Doesn’t Need Another Candle — She Needs to Feel Seen
I am not a natural gift giver. I say this as a man who loves his family deeply and has spent decades proving it in every way except the wrapped-box-with-a-bow…
Why I Wear My Daughter’s Brand Every Single Day
I want to tell you something that might sound like a mother being a mother. It is that. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But it’s also something else —…
What I Wear When I’m the One Holding Everything Together
There is a particular kind of woman who gets dressed in the morning with everyone else in mind. She checks the weather for the kids. She thinks about whether she…
The Professional Woman Who Refuses to Shrink
There is a version of professional success that requires you to make yourself smaller to achieve it. You’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve done it. The laugh that’s a little too…
Raising a Woman Who Means Business
I knew from the time Sherry was small that she was going to be something. Not in the vague, every-parent-thinks-this way. In the specific, observable, this-child-is-going-to-argue-her-way-through-life-and-win way. She was the…
What Basically Fine Means to the Woman in the Waiting Room
Nobody talks about the waiting room. Not the physical one — though I spent enough time in that one to know every detail of it. The chairs. The particular quality…
