I realized that I'd learned a lot from my yoga practice, from living with a chronic illness and from being a blogger. This is what I know is true for me, and perhaps it is for you, too.
Katie falls asleep to the sound of my laughter, knowing she's 100 percent responsible. It's been such a privilege, watching her grow up. She puts on a good show. But me? I'm a good audience. And that's what makes me a good mom.
We graduated from college with a diploma and a dream but not much certainty as to what path our lives would take or even who we'd become along the way. Most of us leapt before we looked and landed okay. So, why the dread over what I'll call "commencement 2.0"?
When the number forty appears in the Bible, the reader knows a change is about to take place. In Scripture, the number forty marks a moment of transition, transformation and transcendence.
Since May is older Americans month, we thought we'd cap off the celebration by asking award-winning author and journalist Anna Quindlen about the mome...
While most of Anna Quindlen's columns were from the trenches, this book is a look back with a widened lens -- and her message, as she prepares to turn 60, is that it just gets better (hence the cake).
In her new memoir Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake, Anna Quindlen, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of six novels, recounts how she began...
Hey, Boo celebrates a novel, an imagination and, ultimately, a defining piece of Americana. It's always nice to see a movie that values literature and literacy -- and this is one of the better ones.
In college my friends and I used to love to watch Baretta ironically and wait for Robert Blake to shake his head and say "I hate it when kids get hurt...
By Anna Quindlen
From the new book "Scout, Atticus, and Boo," edited by Mary McDonagh Murphy (HarperCollins, 2010)
I took "To Kill a Mockingbird" ou...
Did you miss any of the big book reviews this weekend? Catch up with the highlights below.
"Solar," Ian McEwan
The New York Times
There's little tha...
Matrix Awards attendees might have thought they were seeing double as not one, but two pairs of honorees and presenters were wearing the same thing.
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A very bad thing --- for a wife and mother, the worst possible thing --- happens right at the halfway mark of Every Last One, and if I tell you what i...
A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.
Diane Salvatore has made her second acquisition as the newly minted publisher of Broadway Books. The longtime magazine editor, who sat at the helm of ...
This page, this place, is an invaluable opportunity to shed some light. But if I had any lingering doubts about giving it up after almost nine years, ...