Erin DiNicola
Erin is a single mom of four young kids (8-year-old, 6-year-old and 4-year-old boy and girl twins). A former US diplomat, Erin has lived and worked all over the world. She is a former nationally ranked 100m and 300m hurdler, a certified yoga and prenatal yoga instructor, and holds additional certifications as a CrossFit Level 2 Coach, Precision Nutrition Coach, USAW L-1, Barre, TRX Barre, TRX Yoga, NASM CPT and as an ACE group fitness trainer. She owns Mount Pleasant Fitness, offering group/personal training. On a daily basis, she aims to show her babies that women can be both soft and strong, and that one must never give up, no matter what!
Getting Spooky in Charleston: A Halloween Driving Tour
It's Spooky Season and one of my favorite traditions with my kids is to drive around the neighborhoods of Charleston looking at the homes spookily decorated for Halloween.
In this third annual edition of the...
Delivering your Baby in Style: Bon Secours Renovations
Pregnancy is a time of happy anticipation. Now, expecting moms have a new, beautifully renovated state-of-the-art labor and delivery unit and level II nursery at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital to welcome their bundle...
What Moms Really Want (And Don’t Want!) For Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and hapless men around Charleston are sheepishly walking into Victoria's Secret looking for the sexy panties of our dreams. The less brazen are skulking through the aisles...
Introvert Stuck in an Extrovert’s Body
I recently lost my voice. Again.
A few times a year since the time I was a teenager, I lose my voice when I've overdone it and I'm exhausted. There is no real medical reason...
School Days Empty Nester
We hear about empty nesters - parents whose children have left home for college - but we don't often hear about the strange empty space left behind when you suddenly have all your children...
Sobriety: A Love Story
This is not a story of abject desperation or unthinkable lows. This is not an after-school special or even a Lifetime movie. It’s certainly not Nicholas Cage in ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ or even Meg...
A Letter to My Wild Child
Dearest Wild Child,
You come from a long line of hell raisers, rule breakers, radical individualists, and people who most definitely marched to the beat of their own drum. You, my sweet baby, are the...
The Seasons of Friendship
Friendships have seasons and this season of friendship is a wintery one.
In my teens and 20s, I saw friends nearly every day and definitely on the weekends. I knew everything about their love lives,...
Throw Away The Scale and Live Your Life
Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by a Weight Scale!
Everyone's hand raised? Mine definitely is!
As easy as it is to become obsessed with a number of the scale and continue...
To My Fellow Moms Kicked in the Rear by 2020
I see you. I am you. This year....bless its heart. It sucked.
The many pivots of 2020
We had to learn to homeschool with five-year-olds who are way more tech-savvy than their parents. There is nothing...