One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.