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Primary Caregiver vs. Breadwinner
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had three separate women I casually know ask me to recommend a divorce attorney for them. Each one had a...
Parenting in an Unrecognizable World
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...
Trusting Our Maternal Instincts
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...
The Mommy Vortex: Becoming a Food Allergy Mom
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...
A Toy Story
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...
A Crossroads of Advocacy and Acceptance
When my son was born over eight years ago, I remember the nurses at the hospital giving me all kinds of supplies the day we were...
A Delicate Balance
As the 2012 holidays ran out of steam, gasping their last breath on New Year’s Day, I stood in line at my local supermarket stocking up...
Top Ten Things I’m Grateful For As a Mom
In the wake of the unspeakable, unfathomable tragedy that befell such innocents in Connecticut, I could not help but cry and grieve with...
Saying Goodbye to the Guilt Trip
Last week, in the middle of trying to get to an early work meeting, get the kids packed and ready for school, and generally manage the...
The Real Value of Daily Chores
On a random Wednesday last month, I was doing the same thing I always seem to be doing on a school night: simultaneously cleaning up the...
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