I try not to judge someone when I first meet them. But this man was different. I could tell by the way he looked at me and my daughters that there was something wrong with him.
I felt shivers down my back the moment I locked eyes with him. We were at a birthday party [...]

In the pre-kids and husband’s era I was a semi-professional dancer.
I say semi-professional because I only made it to Off-Broadway. Fifteen years ago I got a starring role as a girl who danced onto the stage, threw a roll of toilet paper toward the audience and ran out.
After that dazzling performance, I [...]

In the last three days, I’ve talked more with the librarian near our home - actually whispered to her about my plight with a looming deadline for my book and our fridge not working (she didn’t seem particularly interested in either one) - than with any other adult. If you don’t count Twitter. And even [...]

I am not a show-your-boob-while-you-breastfeed type of mom. But I respect anyone’s personal style, full view, partial view or no view at all. The way a mom decides to breastfeed her child is her own business and not mine to judge.
This said, I was extremely surprised when, while discretely breastfeeding my daughter at the mall, [...]

Lots of babies look like old men when they are born. My little newborn daughter is no exception. Though my motherly eyes, opaque with some powerful morphine, see her as nothing but beautiful I recognize that when newborns really do look like little old men.
Our number 6th arrival wasn’t as tough as I had [...]