There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.