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Forty Days and Forty Nights 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
I’m a big believer in holistic health. The trouble is I’m not always such a great practitioner of it. Last fall I wrote about a health scare that prompted me to realize the importance of taking care ...
How High Does the Sycamore Grow? 14 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
I confess: I’ve never seen the movie Pocahontas all the way through. (I’m sure a full viewing is in my near future as my two-year-old daughter becomes increasingly aware of all things Disney.) But I d...
Mama Said Knock You Out? 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Since moving back to Connecticut two months ago, I’ve found myself thinking again and again about how nice people have been to us – how welcoming, how helpful, how often they’ve extended themselves. A...
Mother-Writer: Jane Smiley 31 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
When Lauren Sandler asked, in an Atlantic essay, how mother-writers could best “negotiate the balance between selfhood and motherhood,” she probably wasn’t expecting a direct reply from Jane Smiley, a...
Motherhood, “Momish”-ness, and the Mother-Writer 24 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
In the haze of my move last month, Melissa and Carinn saved me from missing a viral post in The Atlantic that is highly germane to the research for my book. In “The Secret to Being Both a Successful W...
I Do Know How She Does It 17 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
One of the things I find most interesting about the new New York Times series I discussed last week is the insight it gives into the ins and outs of scheduling in different families. Since I was a lit...
On Leaning Back 10 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Like many of us, I read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In this spring. After being moved and inspired by her TED Talk, “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” I wanted to learn more about her ideas on work-life ...
On Coming Home 3 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Greetings from our new home! It’s nice to see you here. Our move went well, really as smoothly as it could have gone. We got an offer on our house five days (five days!) after we put it on the market...
Homeward Bound 10 May 2013 | 07:49 pm
As you might have noticed, I haven’t been here – or really anywhere around the blogosphere – lately. And there’s good reason for that. In less than a month, strong men with a big truck will pull up in...
The Mother of Mother’s Day 1 May 2013 | 07:18 pm
Would you be surprised to learn that Mother’s Day was created by a woman who was never a mother herself? I know I was. In fact it was a daughter, Anna Jarvis, who was so proud of her own mother’s life...
