I love getting older. Though my knees newly creak and my smile is bracketed by unwelcome parentheses, I'm a more contented person. I'm also very much in love with the guy I've been with for almost twelve years. So that's kind of awesome.

Ian and I met when I...

Hyphenated last names are annoying. They smack of posh British peerage or unyielding Birkenstock feminism. They're impractical (what's a hyphenate supposed to do if they marry another hyphenate?) and they force small children to lug around big, unwieldy names that never fit on their cubbies.

So, naturally, when it...

On Monday, some might say the Occupy movement suffered its first fatality. Jennifer Fox claims she miscarried after having been kicked and pepper sprayed by the police at a peaceful protest in Seattle.

"I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,"...

As I emerged from the subway to join friends at Occupy Wall Street yesterday, there was a boy, maybe 11-years-old, leaning over the railing with a scrawled sign, which declared, "No Rich. No Poor." He was there with a skinny Justin-Bieber-haired friend, whose small piece of cardboard read, "We are...

It was late at night on September 13th 2001, and I was trudging through debris at Ground Zero with my friend Michelle, trying to deliver light bulbs to a Salvation Army station on Vesey Street. The city was covered with ash and it was hard to know where we were...

A month ago a breastfeeding doll from Europe made a controversial splash in the U.S., erroneously accused of "sexualizing" children. A week ago the CDC issued a report that hospitals don't support nursing mothers. And yesterday, a teacher in Colorado claimed she was fired...

Lately, I feel like God is my abusive ex-boyfriend. I love him, I need him, I cling to him. But he just ignores me and does whatever the hell he wants.

I'm sure I've got the whole thing wrong. But I find myself -- after decades of sailing serene spiritual...