When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.