Last week, I took down a random picture of myself and replaced it with a picture of my daughter on my Facebook profile page. It was an innocent gesture prompted simply by boredom and the fact that an update seemed fitting.

But if you ask Katie Rolphe, author of a...

As a mother of young children, I've been bombarded on all fronts by swine flu facts and fiction. I have my own top 10 lists of things to do (and not to do) and along with many in my community, we're circling the wagons at the office and in the...

This weekend, a mother of two in Scarsdale, NY did what I often think about doing when my kids' sibling squabbles reach a crescendo: She pulled over and asked them to get out of the car. Unlike the events that unfold in my disciplinary daydreams, however, her parenting tactic veered...

Yesterday, as Brian Stetler exposed in the New York Times, ABC had to remove some problematic language from the website for their new sitcom airing tonight, In the Motherhood. Turns out that the interactivity that worked for the webseries -- asking viewers to send in their real life stories to...

Like most mothers across the country, I have railed against octuplets mom Nadya Suleman, both publicly and privately, and have a laundry list of grievances against her. I've asked all the questions: How could she have all these kids? How will she take care of all these kids? Why will...

An uneventful ride to school last week went awry when my 7-year-old son, Owen, busted out the inevitable Santa question.

"Is Santa real, Mom?"

This same conversation years earlier with my girls, who are now nine and 17, had been riddled with complex emotions - disappointment, sadness, anger...

If you prefer chocolates or roses on this special day devoted to love and all it's trimmings, read no further. But if an erotic interlude with your spouse holds some appeal as a way to ring in this holiday d'amore,...

"A girl never forgets her first e-courtship" begins the new book, I Love
You, Let's Meet by former Salon sex columnist Virginia Vitzthum. When you read (and I highly recommend that you do) her exposé of the pleasures and perils of technology-enhanced romance -- or...

Oh no, Dr. Keroack, say it ain't so!

It was bad enough last November, when Bush appointed Dr. Erik Keroack, an anti-choice, abstinence-only yes-man to run the government's $238 million family planning programs -- that he entrusted a card-carrying Christian Right charter-member whose mantra is "birth control is...

I was at the Golden Globes last night and after an evening of celebrity gawking and the E!/EMA's eco-fabulous after-party festivities, I noticed something even more chilling than the temperatures hovering above freezing: nary an award recipient - all 26 - of them mentioned the fact that it was Martin...

Conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet according to Edge - the heady website for world-class scientists and thinkers, and the brainchild of author and entrepreneurial idea man, John Brockman, there's good news ahead. Each year, through their World Question Center, they pose...

Last call to enter your Six Word New Year's Resolution and a chance to be the first one on your block wearing our new Huffpost t-shirt!!! Along with our friends at SMITH, we launched this contest a few weeks ago to resounding success (check out some of the entries...

It came as quite a shock to me when I recently noticed my female relationships in flux. Sure, I have kids ranging in ages from 6 through 16, so I've seen the precarious dance of friendship - knowing full well that a B.F.F. today can quickly morph into a taunting...

--Romi Lassally

Last week I had to gush about the Six-Word Memoir Contest being held by our friends at the storytelling magazine SMITH . We received some great responses ranging from the personal ("Womb, bloom, groom, gloom, doom, tomb") to the political ("Dick...

Last month brought National Novel Writing Month, aka, NaNoWriMo. The goal was lofty: write 50,000 words in November. After another year of seeing so many writers collapse in frustration -- wow, these first 42,698 words aren't very good! -- SMITH, the online magazine devoted to celebrating personal stories...

THIN, a new documentary by Lauren Greenwald, will air November 14 on HBO.

For the first time since they started keeping records, the Census Bureau has seen a tipping of the domestic scales - revealing that the majority of American households are no longer shared by a husband and a wife. That's right, now more than half of American homes are now...

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Sitting in a packed theater in L.A. last Saturday night, eagerly awaiting the credits to roll on Martin Scorsese's latest film, The Departed, I was startled to see two little girls -- five and seven at best -- filing into the front row with their family. The more compassionate parent...