Date night: Why doesn’t it happen?
Modern mothers work more hours for pay than they did 50 years ago. They also spend more time with their children. They still sleep a …Read More
Category Archives: Parenting & Family
What to expect when no one’s expecting
I got to know Jonathan Last because both of us (in separate years) won a Phillips Fellowship. This journalism fellowship -- which is aimed at …Read More
My kid’s other mom
Some children have an imaginary friend. My 5-year-old has an imaginary mom. He calls her “My other mom,” and regales us with all sorts of …Read More
Doing downtime right
One of the realities of having small children is that one’s true downtime is fairly limited. It gets better fairly soon -- my 5-year-old and …Read More
Tuesday musings
I don't really have a 500-word persuasive essay in me at the moment. So today's post will be a bunch of random links and thoughts. I …Read More
The weekend report
I gave my husband a gym membership for Christmas. He loves to swim, and so I had called around to various places around our home, …Read More
Weekend highlights
This was the first weekend after the publication of my new ebook, What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend. It was...OK. There were …Read More
Holiday memories, reviews and links
When it comes to how humans view time, we turn out to have multiple personalities: the anticipating self, the experiencing self, and the remembering self. …Read More
Sheer volume of artistic output
We have a paper problem in our house. My 5-year-old loves to draw and write and make maps. He likes nothing better than to write …Read More
Planning for the December bug
My birthday is in early December. Early December also plays host, annually, to a nasty bout of the stomach flu that circulates in these parts. …Read More