My October "Vacation"
Loose bowl movements, smashed birthday cake and the Bubonic Plague -- just another month the life of the Princeling.
Loose bowl movements, smashed birthday cake and the Bubonic Plague -- just another month the life of the Princeling.
Kristin Maschka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
The appearance of the Mother piece of pie presents us with a psychological pie dilemma we have to solve to find ourselves again: How do I integrate this huge new piece of who I am into my Identity Pie without making a big old mess?
Yahoo! News | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
New mothers may be so consumed with their newborns that they forget the ordeal of childbirth. How quickly their bodies actually recover is another sto...
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
When a woman feels creatively, spiritually, and emotionally fulfilled, then she has the mental and physical energy to be the best mom she can be: a Super Mom.
Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...
Joan Williams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Men have lost three-fourths of the jobs during the Great Recession, making women's wage work more important than ever. Our public policy hasn't caught up.
Emma Byrne Rooney | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
Every year, First Candle celebrates another year of helping babies survive and thrive with a beautiful evening of dinner and dancing under the stars.
Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
I was frustrated by the absence of movies where a mother is the lead and her issues are the film's main focus, where she is a significant character expressing her soul and existence.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
I met Amanda recently at an October 2008 birthday party for neighborhood babies. She not only skates with Gotham Girls, but also runs two film production companies out of her home in Brooklyn.
Louise Sloan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
The movie premiere reminded that my usual boring, barefoot evenings of reading storybooks and running bubble baths are exactly what I want to be doing right now.
Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
During visits to Madison Square Park, I started to grasp the complicated terrain of Manhattan Motherhood, and how I wished someone had written a guide about what to expect when breeding in New York City.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
And so, this is the first of a three-part series I'm calling "Super Moms" - interviews with three of my mom friends who lead extraordinary lives beyond diapers and playgrounds.
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Last week, my ten-year-old son, Mikey, suffered a concussion in third game of his first season of tackle football. I'm in a quandary: do I end tackle football now and forever, or let him play?
Katherine Dieckmann | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
Movies are stories. Stories that take us places we may not have been to before, in the hope of enlarging our sense of human drama or frailty or complexity.
Holly Robinson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Style
With four kids in college and one in junior high, it's high time for my midlife crisis. Shoes are cheaper than a boob job, a tummy tuck, or a new car.
Laura Pappano | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
As working moms playing gold-medal-worthy competitive beach volleyball in bitsy bikinis, Treanor-May and Walsh may just be giving the rest of us a little more room to move.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
I spent most of 2007 feeling pretty spectacular about myself. For the first time in my life, I had a flat stomach and thighs that didn't rub together when I wore skirts or dresses. Then I got pregnant.
Heather Cabot | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.
wellness.com | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Insti...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
At a wedding your mind wanders across some pretty deep territories, like life, love, and the passage of time.
Amie Newman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
I went to a memorial service yesterday for a friend's mother who died at 99. It was full of some 50+ people who knew this extraordinary woman - an ordinary mom who revealed the extraordinary in everyday life.
Louise Sloan | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
These days, it seems like all the cool new parents complain -- bitterly and hilariously -- about having an infant. But I actually loved it.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
In the wake of a series of highly-publicized killings of young children by Texas mothers suffering from post-partum mental disorders, a state representative from Houston has introduced long overdue legislation that will recognize the mitigating circumstances surrounding such acts.
Wendy Sachs | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
In a time of cash for clunkers, TARP, Ponzi schemes and "Recessionistas," the luxury of choosing not to work, seems, well, unseemly if not downright irresponsible.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living