As you ponder what to get her for Mother’s Day this year, consider giving her something she’d really value: insight and understanding into who she is at this point in her life. Dear Young Adult: If you’re pondering what to get Mom for Mother’s Day and you’re old enough to have some kind of income […]
This is the challenge that I and millions of other women have and will face: Who are we once we stop being moms? Hello, my name is Lynn and I am a compulsive motherer. Under other circumstances this might be a virtue. But in my case, it is a problem. I do not have children […]
Don’t let old age be wasted on the old. Sometimes I feel smarter than I was 30-something years ago. I don’t remember how to do Algebra or how to diagram a sentence, but I can read several newspaper articles about seemingly disparate issues and immediately see how they are connected. Like David Foster Wallace on […]
Though he towers eight inches over me, I’ve shielded my oldest son fiercely from the world, but won’t be able to soon. And I am not ready. My 16-year-old, Grant, grew two inches last night. This, after I spent a king’s fortune on a wardrobe at Vineyard Vines, his new brand of choice. It is all washed, hung, […]
