Last night before I went to bed, I read a piece in the Texas Observer that's making the rounds. The writer, during her planned pregnancy with her second child, learned in that shockingly awful way -- a routine ultrasound -- that the son she'd been eagerly awaiting with her husband...

I think about "passing" a lot when I walk on the beach.

I'm a white woman with graying but formerly dark hair and olive skin. I tan easily. I'm mother to four, three I gave birth to and one I adopted. That last one, the adopted girl, is biracial --...

When I was a senior in high school, my mother did not want me to have sex.

This did not stop me.

So, I didn't tell her.

And here's a little more: It was 1981. Once I finally admitted, a few weeks after becoming sexually active that I was indeed...

When people asked what I was having while I was pregnant with my first child, I wanted to say, "Kittens." But instead, I answered, "Baby." Boy or girl, I didn't find out until the featherweight human emerged. Turned out he was (is) a beautiful boy. I didn't pick the word...