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

That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.