I’m sitting in my sister’s beautiful home, listening to my kids and their cousins squeal with laughter as they play in the “bouncy bounce”.  All morning they’ve been playing outside in the snow, only to come in to warm up with hot cocoa and marshmellows.  The bouncing in the basement is a wonderful new way […]

I can definitely do better than that last entry. It’s Friday morning, the sun is out and I’ve successfully made it through my first week back at school. Yeah Diane! Being back at work certainly has its challenges but I am up to the task.
Thank you Universe for my health, […]

Today is a beautiful, cold autumn day in NYC. Through my window, I see a beautiful blue sky, billowy clouds and a myriad of jewel colored leaves blowing. Baby Quinn is napping and my older kids are off icesckating with my husband. It is quiet in my home and I feel at […]

Hello out there. In keeping with the sentiment expressed in the previous entry about “normalizing” what mothers experience, I will be writing here regularly about the dread, fear, joy, glee, insanity…I feel about returning to work full-time, outside my home, in 12 days. I try to always mention “outside the home” because people […]

People have different comfort levels when it comes to personal disclosure. I have a friend, Sarah, who turns crimson and stares uncomfortably at her corduroys when the topic of sex comes up. She isn’t a prude, she’s just private. I, on the other hand, have a hard time leaving my first friendly outing with a […]

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It took a lot for me to sit down and write this entry. Like most things in my life, I have to be compelled by a strong hand before the wheels of action are set in motion. And nothing makes one feel the need to connect with others about how tough mothering can be like […]

Basically, Says who? applies to all judgement calls in the gray (and sometimes not so gray) range.  Anyone who has tried to raise a child knows that for every piece of expert advice, there is often an equally persuasive counterargument.  As with highly complex tasks, there’s no one right way to mother.  Of course your […]

While the openheartedness of mothering is infused with enormous power to love, heal, and protect, it also has the ability to impact our children in less growth-enhancing ways.  Because we love them so deeply, we risk identifyine too closely with their pain, joy, successes, and failures.  When the line between who we are and who […]

I can stand it empowers you to withstand anything without changing anything.  You know that this will pass and you don’t have to escape or obliterate anything for your emotional equilibrium.  Telling yourself that you can’t stand something confines your options by prodding you to react.