Expressions from an Abnormal Mommy

It finally happened. The conversation I have been dreading, yet planning for since I found out I was pregnant with Liam, was had today. As...

I am comfortable in my own skin and proud of who I am 99.9% of the time. There is only one situation that has ever made me feel ashamed (yet...

I am so excited and proud to see that little girls with Alopecia and Cancer are finally getting some affirmation that they are normal and t...

After taking a few minutes to share in the wonderful lunch that our administration set out for us in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, I w...

Why is that we put so much pressure on ourselves to make others think we have it all together? I'm not perfect, my life isn't perfec...

A few months back, while teaching my 6th graders about hominids (early forms of man), a great discussion came about. I was specifically talk...

I think that being "different" has created two parts of my personality that may not have been there without it. One of these two q...

On Friday a co-worker handed me a packet for the NAAFC (The National Alopecia Areata Foundation Conference) that will be held in Washington ...

A couple of years ago I was driving my sisters home, and I'll admit, I was driving well above the speed limit. Of course, I was pulled o...

About a week ago, a co-worker stopped to talk to me about my bald head. To my surprise, she knew that it was alopecia and not the usual assu...

Many years ago, when I was still in high school, I was approached by a woman at a fair. She gave me the look that I am so used to and before...

So we have been trying to go without cable and internet at home for about a month now. Everything is going very well and I'm suprised at...

Why do I work with kids? Why do I have massive amounts of patients for young people when I can barely stand to be around most adults? Well, ...

Life is stressful for everyone. We all have times where we feel like our world is falling apart and we don't know how to fix it. The pas...

My life is about as abnormal as it gets. It all began when I was 5 and has continued to keep me on my toes ever since. When I was five my ha...