by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 17, 2020 | Mind, YouTube Vlogs
Are your schools on lockdown while coronavirus wreaks it's havoc? You've got this! We’ve been a homeschool family since 1994. Five of our six kids have already graduated and gone on to college and adulthood. Only our baby—who is now 16—remains. He’s technically a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 6, 2020 | Body, Good, Mind, YouTube Vlogs
Was the Super Bowl halftime show empowering or objectifying? Did you love Jennifer Lopez pole dancing and crotch flashing while Shakira popped her hips while binding herself with a rope? Or did you prefer the big booty twerk off while little girls were crowding the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 30, 2020 | Mind, YouTube Vlogs
Midlife hit me like a brick. In May of 2018 my second-to-oldest son, Samson, graduated from high school. Just as turning 29 shook me to the core, but turning 30 was a relative breeze, this latest second-to-last moment in my life felt like the end of the world. I'm not...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 13, 2019 | Body, Mind, YouTube Vlogs
The new Peloton exercise bicycle commercial is, apparently, the most sexist, body-shaming thing to hit the airwaves since Harvey Weinstein did the Harvey Weinstein. Or something. After watching the offending advertisement, I wracked my brain to figure out the problem....
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 15, 2019 | Mind, YouTube Vlogs
Recently a millennial acquaintance proudly posted on Facebook that he had done his weekly quota of “adulting” by…wait for it…filling out his FAFSA forms. In other words, he was claiming adulthood because he had petitioned the government to have taxpayers...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 2, 2019 | Body, Fun, Good, Home, Love, Mind, Money, YouTube Vlogs
You are not too old to start over and make the second half the better half! I'm one full year into the midlife makeover. I've come a long way but have so far to go. And that's just fine! What are you working toward in your...