How Motherhood Broke My Addiction To Being Busy
In the life of an over-doer, parenthood is a kind of torture therapy. You get over yourself by having no time for yourself. At the height of my most successful period as a young writer in my 20s, I was...
View ArticleWhy I’m Glad Nationwide Ran A Commercial About Death During The Super Bowl
Our attitude of shock and awe toward Nationwide’s commercial proves we still live in a culture that sanitizes or avoids death. Despite a final-hour upset over the Seahawks in the Patriots favor, and...
View ArticleDon’t Call Me Beautiful
I see beauty for what it is: a mirage and a distraction. Who can forget that famous Pantene commercial of the ‘80s with Kelly LeBrock leaning into the camera, swinging her magnificent tresses, and...
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Why I Post Imperfect Pictures Of Myself On Facebook
Show people who you really are, at all angles, even make fun of yourself a little bit, and you make it more possible for others to do the same. Recently a Facebook friend of mine commented on a status,...
View ArticleConfessions Of An Over-Parenter
My son has grown so accustomed to having all eventualities worked out for him that it’s working against both of us. My son is 6 and a half and I’ve only been late to pick him up from school twice....
View ArticleBecoming A Mother Helped Me To Forgive Mine
I was so irrevocably jostled by motherhood that in the grips of a hysterical episode in my son’s third month, my husband and I questioned whether we’d made the right choice to have a child. We mothers...
View ArticleWhy It’s OK To Have Regrets
Regrets are like negatives, the other half of the story, inky patches of darkness that round out the whole person that I am. Yesterday, after a much needed rainstorm in our drought-stricken state, my...
View ArticleStop Telling Me To Cherish Every Moment
It’s easy to be glib when the more difficult moments are behind you. There is nothing more maddening to me in the throes of something difficult than the advice to “cherish every moment.” The sentiments...
View ArticleWhy I Plan To Hover As My Son Becomes A Teen
What drives young men who commit horrific crimes? It may be a simple lack of basic morality. Lately, when I see a scowling teenage boy walking through my suburban town, skateboard clutched under one...
View ArticleWhy I’m Going Away For Thanksgiving This Year
At 41 years old, I have finally realized: I am the grown up now. A grown woman with my own family, small as we may be, I don’t have to wait for permission to be happy. Every year, when discussing the...
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