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Last weekend, after lunch, I loaded my kids into the car to do some errands. We had just turned the corner at the end of my street, when...

Two weeks ago, I was standing in line waiting to pay for an item at a local department store. In front of me was a mom with her teenage...

Last weekend, my husband and I did something extremely rare: we headed to an upscale restaurant in Manhattan for a quiet anniversary...

When my daughter graduated Kindergarten last week, I couldn’t help but get teary eyed over watching my last “baby” step up to elementary...

When I learned I was pregnant back in late 2003, I immediately had images of all the wonderful, magical parenting moments that would...

“Mommy, what’s gay?” This question, posed by my eight year old son just days ago, was one I should have been – but was not – prepared to...

When I was a teenager, I would take my ten-speed bike and ride it for hours around my home town, a suburb of Manhattan. I’d ride in the...

Back in 2004, when I was pregnant with my first child, I anxiously awaited my first anatomical sonogram, which took place when I was 20...

On Labor Day 2009, the day before my son was to start Kindergarten, he asked me if he could eat a cashew that was sitting in a bowl of...

Toys have been taking over my house for eight years, and I have been powerless to stop it. From the moment my children were born, they...