Old School Posts

• Confession: I Breastfeed My Blog

  Sure I do.  Because my blog is my baby.  And everyone - the media, the fellow moms, the scientists - keeps telling me that breast is best. That nursing this being is a labor of love and good in the long run.  That if I sacrifice sleep in these early days, that if I invest this time and energy up

• Thanks, Thoreau

  Change. Evolution. Growth. Are these things possible? Inevitable? Desirable? Are these things within our control? I'm sorry that I am calling these things "things," that I don't have a better or fancier word to throw at you. But who cares really? This is a blog, not a historical masterpiece. Thi

• Missing an Ex

  Dear Mr. BigLaw, How are you these days? We haven't seen each other or spoken in a while, but I do hear about you from time to time. From friends and newspapers. Despite the recession and everything else, it sounds like you are surviving. I know this letter is foolish. It will likely be lost i

• No Complaints Here

  A lazy morning A crumbling quiche A late morning momosa A kiss from Husband A visit from Mom A card from Toddler Sweet barley kisses from Baby The sun is shining The girls are smiling No complaints here Happy Mother's Day!

• Back to Work

  No, I'm not returning to the law firm after five-plus years. But I am going back to work. To serious writing, that is. Many of you know that I have been struggling with how best to balance my mothering and writing lives. I've been pretty open about my confusions and conflicts. And the realit

• Party All Night

  To celebrate her four-month-birthday, Little Girl decided to party. All night. Yes, that's right. After approximately one month of (pretty much) sleeping through, my tiny thing decided it was time to swing dance out of that pesky swaddle and do the regression rumba. Lovely. The quasi-good

• Party On, Mr. Pres

  Honestly, I don't get it. Yes, he's our President. Yes, he has a big job to do. Yes, he has inherited some vast international and domestic messes to mop up. Yes, these are incredibly tough times. Yes. But he is also a human being. With a beautiful and intelligent wife and two darling girls. He is

• How Well Do You Know Your Parents?

  I couldn't come up with a clever title for this one. And that kind of bothers me because I love clever titles. Oh well. I've been meaning to write this post for quite some time and I won't delay any longer. Fellow blogger Catherine at Her Bad Mother recently lost her father. The death was une

• Dear Skin

  Dear Skin, I know it's a lot to ask after three decades, but now would be a good time to thicken a bit. You see, I've recently started a blog called ILI. And blogging = putting a small percentage of myself and my words out there. And many people out there like it, but some people seem to hate i

• Skies in Disguise

  I am a city girl. I love this place. It is my hometown. I celebrate the diversity, the cracked concrete, the beautiful bustle. I thrive in the chaos. I breathe the conversations. I savor the culture. This is my world. But every now and then, I get worried. I feel a punch of panic. A stab o