I get quite a few gift pitches, especially when a national Hallmark-sanctioned holiday is right around the corner, and Mother's Day is no exception. I guess because I write a blog about relationships, with the occasional story or two about my offspring thrown in for good measure, companies are sending...

I recently attended an event called "The Baby Issue" (formerly known as The Boom Boom Room) in a Manhattan hotel room filled to the BRIM with everything and anything a pregnant woman or mama to a little one could ever need or want. As I'm hustling through the space, trying...

I have to be honest; I look at couples who have managed to stay married sans kids and am mystified by what keeps them bound in matrimony. Not that I'm in any way implying that a couple should or could not get married if they don't intend to have kids....

Giuliana Rancic's admission that "My husband comes before my baby," is ALL.OVER.THE.NEWS. But this whole loving-your-spouse-more-than-your-kids... wasn't Ayelet Waldman, many moons ago, RAKED over the coals when she penned a New York Times "Modern Love" essay in which she unapologetically confessed that she loved her husband...

I am four feet, eleven and three-quarter inches tall. There is NO DENYING the fact that I am short -- I get it -- in fact, shave a few inches off my height and I'd qualify to join the ranks of "little people." I'm not in any sort of denial,...

I want to write something really profound today. I want to convey just how unique, impactful and truly lovable my father was on this day that he would have turned 70. I'm also smack in the middle of a family vacation with my brood, having road tripped for 15 hours...

I write about my marriage on a daily basis on my blog, Married my sugar daddy, and I've always felt like I had a grasp on the mind of the married man. I mean I literally grill my husband for his thoughts, opinions and ideas before I write...

I am a member of the tribe -- a.k.a. a Jew. Which means that while December is afloat in all things jingle bell and merry ho ho's, my kids and I are not able to revel in all its glory without feeling guilty that we're forfeiting our religion for another,...

I am pushing 40, and based on all the intervention it took to have a second child, I'm pretty confident squeezing out another one would be close to an act of God. Still, I can't seem to quiet this nagging voice in the dark recesses of my mind which seems...

I'll admit it -- I've always had a sugar daddy complex. I've actively dated men who were at least 10 years older than me in the hopes that I'd meet the one who would ultimately become my husband. I know what you're thinking... I'm a gold digger who...

So I had my annual OB/GYN pap and boob check yesterday -- fun stuff, I know -- and my beloved gynecologist (who actually reminds me of my dad, which makes me adore him that much more) gave me some sobering food for thought. He said he was reviewing my medical...

Here I am in my marriage -- and I think I'm finally getting it -- the fact that both my husband and I CANNOT be the dream receivers simultaneously. What is a dream receiver you ask? It's the person in the marriage/relationship who gets to live out their dream, their...

As I sit here about to type this post, I can feel the hot breath on my leg of a companion who has been with me on a daily basis and has sat through EVERY article I have ever written since March 1999. She has weathered the births of both...

My one deal breaker with my husband, which I've been very vocal about throughout our relationship, has been infidelity. I could forgive a thousand other things -- the dirty clothes, forgetting my birthday, calling me a nag, telling me I'm crazy, and yes the worst of them all telling me,...

Since my father passed I try really hard to not allow these overwhelming feelings of sadness to envelop me during random moments. It's so strange how a song, a picture or yes, even the monumental birth of my father's grandson, a child born to his only son, can stir up...

I admit it. I'm anxious. I'm a bit of a hypochondriac ( for which I blame my mother) and I get heart palpitations at the thought of letting my kids take public transportation without adult supervision.

In fact, my 11-year-old recently had two of her friends over for a play...

We'll be celebrating the Jewish New year this month -- my second since my dad's passing --and being that it's a time for reflection, I'll admit that I'm finding it increasingly harder to believe that life continues after the physical one ends. Of course my husband's insistence that...

In a perfect marriage and a perfect world, my husband and I would never fight. If we found ourselves in the midst of a disagreement, we'd let cooler heads prevail. We'd take a deep breath, look into one another's blue eyes (yes we both have blue eyes) and realize whatever...

We lost my father a little over a year ago and since his passing my mother has effectively disappeared. She is a mere shadow of her former self and has spent the past 365 days crying uncontrollably, mired in a haze of grief from which she is unable to emerge...