The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
I was selling my book at the LA Times Festival of Books today, when I heard a woman’s voice say “Don’t I know you?” After about five minutes of cross-referencing, we figured out that we had shared a cabin at a church camp about 12 years ago, had had Thanksgiving together [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie
One of the things I had to learn as a newbie stepparent is that I can’t do stuff for the kids because I’m counting on it earning me points, love, appreciation, affection, cooperation, understanding or anything else. I can do stuff for the kids because I want to do it, but I [...]

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Fighting entropy might look like room cleaning to an outside observer, but to a tween-age boy, there’s a difference. “Fight entropy!” makes a half decent battle cry, and while you’re doing it you can imagine yourself combating a villain or undermining a dark force of chaos. You could almost be wearing a cape while you’re [...]

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Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? by Anthony E. Wolf
“You need confidence, and not confidence that you are making the right decision — nobody can do that — or that you are always in control of the kid — nobody can even come close to [...]

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Check out this confession post and all of the confession comments over at Mormon Mommy Wars. Sometimes in the mom-stepmom world, I think we get super careful about doing a good enough job because we know another woman is going to be seeing and hearing all kinds of intimate details about what we’re doing and [...]

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