by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good
Today on International Women’s Day, I’m feeling more hopeful than I have been for a while. For the past four years, it’s been rough, and now here we are, with our first ever woman elected into the White House, hope for some important new legislation...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
Fair warning: This episode may really make you miss your IRL get togethers with your favorite mom friends, because that is exactly what this conversation with Dr. Janice Johnson Dias feels like. We knew that talking to Janice would be helpful, but to be honest, we had...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion
This past year, on a special episode of A Very Pandemic Christmas, I realized it had been a while since I had any decent pajamas. So I asked Santa for a very specific pair of soft, cozy, but still cute pajamas. Hey, I have to differentiate between my sleeping clothes...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion, Kid Style
Well, hey there scientists at Johnson & Johnson! Did you hear us singing your praises (loudly, and possibly with some happy tears) this weekend as your single-dose vaccine joins Moderna and Pfizer on the approved Covid vaccine list? Because we did. Clearly...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
Every night [I] had the fear of going to bed. Because at dinnertime, members of the white supremacist Group, the Ku Klux Klan, would call. every single evening at dinner. Not some nights, but every single night once we moved to Atlanta, and threaten to kill us. My...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good
The stories and photos I’m seeing in the wake of the Texas storm, some from close friends, are shocking. Right now, all 254 counties in Texas have been hit, with 2.5 million Texans still without power at the time of publishing. Many of them are are living...
by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
Considering this is a site dedicated to mothers and parenting, I would not be surprised to learn that you were one of the thousands (millions?) who read The Primal Scream interactive series on the New York Times this week. Compiled by Jessica Grose, Jessica Bennett,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Living
February is hard for me in a zillion ways. Low light, cold temperatures, the biological imperative to eat all the Oreos. (Didn’t Darwin mention Oreos somewhere in his writing? I could swear I remember that from 7th grade biology.) Oh, and then there’s this...
by Liz Gumbinner | Gift Guides, Baby
For more than a decade now (wow), our team has been carefully curating our guide to the very best baby gifts of the year and 2021 is no different. We are beyond thrilled to launch our all new Baby Gift Guide 2021. Whoo!! I mean, if there’s ever a year that new...
by Liz Gumbinner | Living
I think so many of us just needed to laugh this week. So it’s no surprise that the Bernie Sanders meme that’s taken the internet by storm this week is just good fun. Not cynical, not snarky, not political. Just… funny. I guess 2021 will be different...
