It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.