One of the things I miss most about Dad is being able to talk to him about writing. Twyla Tharp has written a book called The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, and I think he would have enjoyed it. As part of the creative autobiography exercise in the book, I remembered […]

My husband and I have never practiced the cry-it-out method of sleep training for small children. We know many good and loving parents who do, but it just doesn’t fit our philosophy of child-rearing, and it doesn’t fit our child. So for the past 14 months we have gone to our child when she cries, […]

I bought some new clothes today. A mother of a toddler has many things to consider when doing this seemingly simple task. There are the obvious things like ease of care–no dry clean only pieces, unless these garments will never come within the projectile-vomiting radius of the child. Also expense–there is a new body in […]

My best friend just had a baby last week. Here’s an excerpt of an e-mail I sent her–
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I was remembering how important it is to have different kinds of friends around you in the early days of motherhood. You need an Aunt Beast [see A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle] who will just listen, […]