Evie Ebert

Nov 12, 2024 | ohevie.substack.com | Evie Ebert

Work travel ramped up a few months ago. My town is rural and the airport is over an hour away. There kept being problems with me taking either of our cars and parking at the airport for the duration. I was feeling panicked. My work mentor was like, just take an Uber, that’s silly. It’s going to cost the same as if you lived in the suburbs of a major metro area. I love when people tell me what to do. So I’ve been in a lot of stranger’s backseats this fall.

Sep 20, 2024 | ohevie.substack.com | Evie Ebert

Sep 19, 2024 | romper.com | Evie Ebert |Anna Maltby |L'Oreal Thompson Payton |Kat Stoeffel

Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don’t get to solve their own problems, the researchers wrote, they develop a belief that they have no control over what happens to them, stoking depression and anxiety. Effectively, the prescription was: send them outside, without phones, to find other kids to play with. Easier said than done.

Sep 16, 2024 | ohevie.substack.com | Evie Ebert

It’s been hard for me to write this summer because I’ve been so miserable. Unhappy is not the word, because my marriage is a comfort to me and my kids are mostly charming. Money is fine. The cars are working. You know? When I say this summer sucked, I only kind of mean it. I’ve said this before, but when you have little kids, it’s hard to write off a whole season (meteorological meaning not Instagram parentcore meaning) or year as a wash.

Aug 27, 2024 | fatherly.com | Evie Ebert

“If your baby mama breastfeeds, she might get a clogged duct once in a while,” Ricky Banzali says directly to the camera. He says he’s going to teach us two ways to solve this problem: “One of them is for boys, and one of them is for men.” He stops for a suspenseful beat, a chunky silver chain glinting over the collar of his buttoned-up henley, before panning to his girlfriend, Rachel, who is laid up in bed with pain she tells him — and us — is 10 out of 10.