I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

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

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

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.