The other night I was catching up on episodes of AMC’s Breaking Bad, an Emmy-award winning television series. I’m not spoiling the fun by telling you one simple fact and what it made me think of: The middle-aged dad in the story finds out he has inoperable lung cancer. With no means to pay for [...]
“So, when your daughters are 15, are you going to take them to the gyno and have them put on birth control?” my friend asked me recently over a shared omelet. Before I could sputter a response, she went on: “I remember when I was in 9th grade, this one girl – you know, the [...]
Sometimes there are moments as a parent where you say to yourself, “Yes!! THIS is what it’s all about – great job, self!” and there are other moments when you find yourself saying, “Oh no, what were you thinking, self.” I had both of those in one short week. The “mothering mistake” occurred with fully [...]
I remember reading that John Waters loved when his subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly and the National Enquirer arrived on the same day. As though the mail carrier might take note of Mr. Waters’ unlikely combination of high and lowbrow reading material and be duly impressed. With that in mind, I’m not going to make [...]
Some time ago — in the same night I might add — my daughter asked me what the two blue columns shining into the sky were about AND why Hannah has two moms. Either question could make a parent’s head spin as we carefully select appropriate and measured responses. I was more comfortable answering the [...]
“My sister…was a phenomenal mother, aunt and friend.” – Warren Hance A few months ago I wrote a blog about a tragic car crash on the Taconic Parkway in the summer of 2009. A month after the blog was published, Jackie Hance, the mother who lost her three children, was interviewed for the first time [...]
My daughter’s Freddy-inspired shoebox project Summer movie season has hit and if you have a pre-teen (or the annoying descriptor “tween”) you may be faced with your child’s awkward movie-stage. I don’t mean that the movie or child is awkward, but that your child simply may not fit into the “G to PG-13” realm. How [...]
The curious backstory of how North Carolina mom Alaina Giordano went from obscurity to international headlines starts right here in Jersey City.
OK, I know that headline sounds like a tabloid quote, but I feel I might have to pull you in by the collar to get your attention. I was doing some research about how, historically, physicians made some unfortunate choices in terms of pregnancy and interventions. For example, there was a time when it was [...]
It was a summer day, in late July — the final day of our annual camping trip with my ex and our kids. The day was glorious — sunny with blue skies, and no one wanted to pack up the campsite or head back to city life. The entire day though, I was plagued by [...]
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