by Janis Gaudelli | Jun 18, 2021
“Happy Father’s Day, Janis!” said my next-door neighbor. I smiled and replied, “Yeah, thanks.” It was presented as a compliment, but I felt weird being on the receiving end. I was well aware when I first decided to dive into the Single Mom By Choice world that my...
by Janis Gaudelli | May 24, 2021
There’s this quote that I see from time to time on social media, it reads: “You date at the level of your self-esteem.”. Every time I see it, it stops me in my tracks. Last week, I saw it on a friend’s feed, and it hit me differently. I felt it more...
by Janis Gaudelli | Apr 30, 2021
“Mom!” “Mom!” “Mommy!” “Mom!” “Mommmmmm!” “Yeah buddy, I am on a call, hold on second”. Then I heard the three words I wasn’t quite prepared for… “What is puberty?” Once I got off the call, I walked slowly into my...
by Janis Gaudelli | Mar 31, 2021
I am about to admit something that most people probably will not understand. I don’t want to go back to normal…the way life was. We are now a year into this pandemic, 365+ days where nothing felt normal. Yet, I realized early on, that I have never felt more...
by Janis Gaudelli | Jan 15, 2021
Back in my mid-thirties, I found myself living in LA, intertwined in a mentally abusive relationship with my then-boyfriend (which I wrote about in one of my earlier blogs on The Daily Feels). It took me years to admit that I, this strong, independent, badass,...