And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.