I am embarrassed to admit it, but there are many mornings when I am daunted by the task of getting dressed for my day. It often seems no easier now then it did when I was 13 years old, as I labored over picking out the perfect pair of fluorescent leggings, matching scrunchi, and cut [...]

One of the most stressful parts of being a mom in Los Angeles is having to deal with all of the nutty drivers as you schlep your kids around town. I find Los Angeles drivers, particularly those traveling west of La Cienega, to be the most obnoxious, inconsiderate group of people I have ever encountered. [...]

I finally did it. I quit therapy. This was not a decision I made rashly. In fact, it was something that I had been contemplating for months, after having been in the process of analysis and self-reflection for many years. Week after week, check after check, I would sit down with a therapist (the person [...]

The other day I was at my friend Tamra’s house with my children for a play-date. “I have stopped telling people Tyler’s real age” she told me “because I can’t take all the comments.” After she tells someone that her son is nearly two years old, she is forced to withstand the following commentary: “He [...]

My son recently turned four and I decided to throw him his first, official birthday party with all his friends. Before you call Child Protective Services and report me for neglect, let me explain why I waited four years to do this. Shane’s birthday is November 23rd, which tends to fall either on Thanksgiving, or [...]

I am never getting on another airplane with my children. I may reconsider this when they are old enough to put on headsets and plug themselves into some Idiot Box Device for the entire flight, wanting nothing to do me. But until that time comes, airplanes are now off limits. Babies really have no business [...]

“It couldn’t be too hard,” I thought.
I was sitting in my local Starbucks and spying on a group of cute teenage girls at a table in the back. They weren’t giggling, or even talking. They were texting, that ubiquitous form of communication that has taken over our society. I had been wanting to learn how [...]

The other day I greeted my husband in my perfectly constructed outfit which reflected that latest trend, Boyfriend Jeans. For those of you living under a rock or from the Midwest (don’t worry, this trend will roll your way in a few years), the look is as follows: supper-baggy, distressed jeans rolled up, tight top, [...]

Yesterday when I went to drop my son off at preschool after the long weekend, I was surprised by what I encountered. The little preschool lobby was packed with teachers, administrators and children sitting on the linoleum floor, watching the Presidential Inauguration on a rolled in television. I had my baby daughter in one arm, [...]

One of my more neurotic obsessions is my fixation on my kitchen floor. The second it looks acceptably clean, it gets filthy again, with three kids who seem to be in a constant rotation of eating meals and snacks, making art projects, and play-do constructions, which all occur at my kitchen table. At any given [...]