Things are feeling a little out of control, aren't they?

We're raising our kids in a terrifying world. We believe it's worse than ever. We say the world these days ... it's no place to raise a child -- and while that seems true to us, I think every parent...

Please read this message and then re-read it and re-re-read it. Allow what happened at this Maryland grocery store yesterday to sink down deep into your bones and remind you that always and forever - the Truth Is Love.

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Dear G:

Today is Nicholas' birthday. I went grocery...

Since I announced my separation, I've received love like never before. I'm grateful for it. I've also received advice like never before. Every message I've received that contained advice about what I should do next like fight for my marriage and never give up and allow God to redeem all...

I never give parenting advice, for obvious reasons. This comes as a disappointment to folks who find my blog hoping it's called "Mom-mastery." As in MASTERING MOTHERHOOD. Oh, God. It makes me shudder every time that's said, and it's said a lot. We don't master motherhood there. I...

School is beginning. Many readers have written to ask me what our family "Back to School" traditions are. If I haven't responded, it's because I stared at those questions and thought: CRAP. I'm supposed to have Back to School traditions?

If any, I suppose our traditions are getting crazy excited...

On Thursday morning, Chase and I returned from a mommy/son overnight date. It was really a let's get the hell away from the girls who will never ever, ever stop fighting date. It was awesome. We played and talked and talked and talked. We splurged on donuts for breakfast and...

I let Craig handle last night's round of "Whack-a- Mole" (bedtime) and settled into the couch at 7:45. It's like my victory lap -- that couch settling.

Day is done, gone the son, gone the girls and the the fights and the whiiiiines. All is calm -- Bravo ooooon --...

What we have here is a LOVE FLASH MOB, being held on Momastery. It is a celebration of LIFE and LOVE and HOPE. We come together there to support a Sister, a Sister who might need a reminder that She is Loved and Watched Over. In short, we...

"The plain fact is that the world does not need more successful people, but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make...

6:55 am: As usual, we all wake up ten minutes late and the morning insanity ensues.

Tish hates her outfit and wonders aloud, loud, loud why she doesn't get to "WEAR GLITTER TANK TOPS TO SCHOOL LIKE EVERYOOOOOONE EEEEEELSE," as if she attends kindergarten with the cast of "Showgirls".

Amma...

Link after link after link after link.

Folks have sent me link after link about Trayvon Martin, asking me to write about it write about it write about it. I've read them all. I've read the articles and the reactions to the articles and the comments about the reactions to...

Last weekend, Chase and I were grocery shopping in the produce section and he was having a blast weighing each new bag of vegetables I collected. I handed him a bag of tomatoes and he walked over to the scale and waited patiently in line. As I watched, an elderly...

I don't believe in advice. My theory is that everybody has the answers right inside of her, since we're all made up of the same amount of God. So when a friend says, "I need some advice," I switch it to "I need some love," and I try to offer...

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The earth shakes when the doctor places your firstborn in your arms. Your love for him is colored by terror because you are positive that he is going to die with each passing minute. You bring him home understanding that the Universe has made a mistake, that someone...

I've been watching America's response to recent bullying-related suicides closely. People seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in our schools. I'm confused by their shock. I'm also concerned about what's not being addressed in the proposed solutions to this devastating problem.

The usual response seems to be that...

I recently heard a vicious radio debate between women who believe that mothers should stay home and others who believe that mothers should work outside the home. All the debaters were mothers themselves.

As I listened wearily while ducking and dodging the ladies' sucker punches like a cornered boxer, I...

Every time I'm out with my kids -- this seems to happen:

An older woman stops us, puts her hand over her heart and says something like, "Oh, Enjoy every moment. This time goes by so fast."

Everywhere I go, someone is telling me to seize the moment, raise my...