Even though no one is making pithy resolutions anymore, I have one that I'm sticking with. My resolution this year is about being ridiculous. Sounds strange, but that is what it comes down to for me, a forty-four year old woman and mother of three:I resolve in the coming year...

The thing nobody tells you when you plan on having kids is how much it hurts. I am not talking about labor and delivery, though God knows that is pretty painful stuff. I am talking about what you feel for them afterwards. I remember the earliest feelings of looking at...

This is the time of year when we focus on gift-giving. I try to remember all the kids' teachers, even though Brookline schools has a policy against giving gifts to teachers, there's always some way, like cards, or baking, to say thanks. But there's often someone important I forget,...

When I told one friend that I now belly dance, she nearly spat out her coffee. "How can you do that?" she asked, "It's so repressive."

I thought about it, and I understood where she was coming from. The paleo-feminist ideal of how women should be tells us not to...

I was doing my autumn yard clean-up a few weeks ago when a woman
driving by poked her head out of her car window and shouted to me,
"Hey, did you know you have a registered Level 3 sex offender living
on your street?"

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Unlike the Winkelmans, the Ohio family that will appear soon before the Supreme Court, I have not yet had to sue my school system over my severely autistic son's education. The Winkelman case is an interesting twist on guilty until proven innocent - or, incompetent until proven able --...