Pure Mama Love by Ali Skylar
August 9th, 2021
Sometimes I get triggered. It pulls me down, Down into the abyss of darkness. I work to keep my energy high and clear, But sometimes my mama heart just aches. I ache to make it better, to put my arms around my child and make the yucky stuff go away as they birth into adulthood. I ...
TITANIQUE: A New Day Has Come – Show Review by Ali Skylar
May 4th, 2021
You’ve got to have a ton of guts to go out and impersonate the one-of-a-kind Celine Dion. Let alone use a slew of her songs as the musical score for a theatrical production. Well, that’s exactly what Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price (Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!) did with TITANIQUE, “the irresistibly ...
Moms Always Share…:) by Ali Skylar
March 15th, 2021
CHARACTERS: Mom, Son SETTING: A mom and son at college are texting each other. Mom: Hey, start thinking about what you want to get with the couple of million dollars I’m going to give you when I win the $700 million powerball drawing tonight! Son: You bought a ticket? Mom: Yep Son: Since when do you ...
Evolving From The “Me” Into The “Us” Generation by Ali Skylar
February 26th, 2021
A couple of weeks ago when we got hit with 35 inches of snow and then later that week about another 8 inches or so, I was out there with my husband shoveling. And I was wishing that my hulky 22 year old son, living on his own, was still ...
A Cold Shower A Day Keeps The Doctor Away! by Ali Skylar
February 6th, 2021
So a couple of weeks ago, my husband, my son and I started getting into taking cold showers in the morning. Thanks to the teachings of Wim Hof. It’s taken about 3 weeks to get used to slowly and progressively turning the hot dial on the shower colder and colder ...
Flipping Parenting On It’s Head! by Ali Skylar
January 22nd, 2021
For me, one of the benefits to being an older parent is that as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten wiser. Wiser though in ways I wish I had been when my kids were younger. I don’t believe that anyone - no matter whether you're a younger or motherhood later mom - ...
The Prom: A Review In A Play! By Ali Skylar
December 17th, 2020
CHARACTERS: Amelia and Jake, a middle-aged couple from NY and NJ. SETTING: In their bedroom, getting ready for bed after watching THE PROM on netflix. JAKE: Hon, so what did you think? AMELIA: Much better than I expected! And compiling notes in my head now to share with you…:) JAKE: You know, I liked ...
Another Perspective On Helping Our Kids Make Friends – by Ali Skylar
December 9th, 2020
The other day I was talking to a mom who is just incredibly overwhelmed helping her two young teenage boys figure out not just how to do school online, but how to create friendships online. As many parents know, making and keeping friends is probably one of the biggest challenges our ...
Mom, You Just Don’t Get It by Ali Skylar
November 2nd, 2020
The other day my 21 year old son Chaz called after watching a documentary called The Social Dilemma. According to the filmmakers, this documentary is “a powerful exploration of the disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and ...
All In by Later Mom Ali Skylar
October 25th, 2020
I was at a Motherhood Later Zoom gathering when one of the moms shared a bit about her parenting journey, and how an extremely challenging birth experience “birthed” an incredible commitment on her husband’s part to help make changes in the workplace. On a global scale, Josh Levs’ work has ...
