I know parents a decade younger than me who need an afternoon nap after a morning at the park. I won’t judge their naps if they won’t judge my grey hair. I just turned 48 earlier this month and my sons are 3 and 5 years old. Whenever people hear this, I get the usual […]
There is no way to compromise on an issue like this. As much as the census may claim that American families have one point something children per household, you can’t have half a baby. I’m 44, and I bled again this month at exactly 27 days—the calendar of my body, clockwork of my reproductive system, […]
What do you do when you realize you’ve spent most of your life searching for exactly what you have now? For the last six weeks, I’ve been on the road with my baby daughter, Charlotte, who will be five months old in early August. Babies, it turns out, travel with about 10 times their weight […]
