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Celebrities' favorite children's books: Rediscovering classics with kids 24 May 2013 | 03:10 am
Anne Lamott, the honest, hilarious author of many heartbreaking and hopeful non-fiction and fiction books, recently came to my city. She spoke for a while, and I sat, poised with my phone, tapping awa...
Connecting to Rwanda 21 May 2013 | 09:13 pm
I knew about Rwanda, saw heart-yanking images and read articles of the 1994 genocide that left a nation scarred. But I didn't really feel the connection until my friend Elizabeth returned from working...
Reading is the new playing 21 May 2013 | 08:14 pm
He used run nakey to the tub, arms full of tiny plastic guys that he would line up on the ledge. He would only agree to veer away from athletic pants because he could carry Legos in his cargo pockets....
The problem with chaperoning a field trip 17 May 2013 | 09:47 pm
It isn't that there are one thousand second-graders carrying paper lunch bags that are torn or half-open with bags of Sun Chips and baby carrots and hot Cheetos spilling out. Or that they are supposed...
We were closer to Angelina Jolie than we knew 15 May 2013 | 01:50 am
Angelina Jolie's own metered and honest words about undergoing an elective double mastectomy are printed in the New York Times today, making her vastly removed celebrity voice feeling closer to the ma...
His first foray into fancy-man products 14 May 2013 | 02:26 am
The stinky-boyness is creeping in. The shaggy hair holds the sweat smell, he's been sworn to keep his socks on until the moment he steps into the tub and some days...I. Just. Cannot. OH. GAWD. Still, ...
Mother's Day in pictures 13 May 2013 | 09:49 am
Minus the onslaught of allergies, the Don Draperish haze of please-God-and-antihistimines-keep-me-from-sneezing-one-more-time, the triumph that there not only is a coffee station in my grandmother's c...
What I've learned about motherhood as a single mom 12 May 2013 | 07:23 pm
Huffington Post asked me to write about the parenting lessons I've learned as a single mom, to be compiled as a part of a series for Mother's Day. I was thrilled to see it at the top of the Parents...
When a kid thanks a single mom 23 Apr 2013 | 01:04 am
It was my son's second big stand-up gig. The first was in kindergarten, two years ago, and he wore a flashing bow tie my dad let him borrow and used flash cards I made for him to prompt the jokes....
When a kid thanks a single mom 23 Apr 2013 | 01:04 am
It was my son's second big stand-up gig. The first was in kindergarten, two years ago, and he wore a flashing bow tie my dad let him borrow and used flash cards I made for him to prompt the jokes....
