Giving New Meaning to Parenting

I recently turned thirty-seven.
I’m always baffled by some of the responses to that statement: many women look politely sorrowful, as if I’ve just told them their cat who has been ill has finally died. I feel that I need to defend my joy at growing older. Some people soothe that it’s okay, I’ll always [...]

Let me start off here by stating for the record my bias, that breastfeeding my children was something I found not only personally fulfilling but also a one of the most important things I have done as their mother. I did so, even though I was working full time and had to pump milk [...]

When I was in college, my girlfriends and I all swore that we’d keep our maiden names were we to ever get married. After all, changing one’s name was an old, outdated tradition started because women were considered property to be exchanged between men. We were going to be nobody’s property. We were [...]

So, I’ve got this question, and I am asking it with utmost sincerity: Are any of you readers opposed to women breastfeeding their babies in public? If so, why?
I get that some folks are opposed to abortion. That’s fine, I take no issue with it. (and, for proper full disclosure, I don’t find abortion to [...]

Isn’t it interesting how we can think that Postpartum Depression is something that happens to other people even while we are surrounded by the signs of depression within ourselves?
I struggled with Postpartum Depression with three of my four births and I’m not yet out of the woods with my fourth. My fourth baby, Laurelyn, is [...]

Our house is generally clean and neat, but I know it’s in need of certain attentions: Hand-me-downs lurk in a closet, waiting to be sorted and tried on. The kitchen longs for reorganization. The playroom toys pine to be sorted through and rotated. The checkbook screams to be balanced; the computers groan for an operating [...]