You can talk all you want about how you would like to parent, what you think is valuable, what the implications of your parental choices might be, but all that theory, all that shit, flies out the window when you're faced with the power and pain of parenting in the moment. >>read more
by Tomas Moniz :: column added on 2008-06-22
I was not, at that point, admitting to myself that my impulse to get a dog had anything to do with the fault line that fractured my heart when I finally faced the reality that my childbearing years had likely passed. >>read more
by Laura Tuley :: column added on 2008-06-08
I have nightmares that Miriam is shrinking, getting smaller and smaller until she finally disappears. >>read more
by Rebecca Sherman :: column added on 2008-06-08
As a kid, I thought that marriage, parenting, and home life were all imposing forces. Everyone I knew seemed to be in such despair. >>read more
by Michelle Taylor :: column added on 2008-06-08
Children who are adopted from orphanages come to their new families the same way a newborn does: they bring nothing with them. Or so they say. >>read more
by Meredith Resnick :: column added on 2008-05-24
Now I have NO excuse for not writing. NO excuse for not painting. And no excuse for all the things I say I can't do (HAVE-A-LIFE) because Aria won't sleep without me. I've been sprung from my cozy little prison of my own creation. SHIT. >>read more
by Emily Wagner :: column added on 2008-05-26
I can't fake an unflappable fun mommy façade for one whole day, and Dane's going to be gone all week? >>read more
by Melissa Wilkins :: column added on 2008-05-11
How is it possible at thirty-five I'm losing my hairstyle options because it might be perceived that I'm trying to look too young or hot? Is there something unacceptable about natural traces of gray in a set of braids? >>read more
by Heather Cori :: column added on 2008-04-27
I want to remind you to follow Avery. Take it slow. >>read more
by Jennifer Graf Groneberg :: column added on 2008-03-30
I was very lucky. When I was born, I still had all four grandparents living. >>read more
by Anjali Enjeti-Sydow :: column added on 2008-03-30
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