Old School Posts

• Do You Believe in Happy?

  Two women. Both wear black. They sit across from each other. Separated by a pair of steaming coffee cups and one crumbling muffin. I just want you to be happy, the younger woman says, and sips. The older woman chuckles. Smiles. I don't believe in happy, she says. I believe that on any given

• Dollhouses & Dreams

  As promised. Here I am. Back with more about the first Happier Hour. I don't know where to begin. I feel overwhelmed. Immersed. Buzzed. Jazzed. Humbled. Happier. Yes, in my humble (or elitist) opinion, this wine/women/words thing seems to be a recipe for lasting smiles. Wine. One measl

• Like a Shadow

  “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddha I believe this. That we are shaped by our thoughts; that we become what we think. But my question is whether we can always truly control our thoughts, whether

• A Book Jacket & A Beginning

  Yesterday, I told a little story. About book day. A 99% fictional story. And I was amazed at how many of you were fooled! And I know I promised that I would tell you all about what really happened, but I will stick to one highlight. (Or lowlight.) Sister C did take me shopping on Tuesday to find

• LAY Is the Final SheKnows Book Club Pick of the Year!

  Remember last week when I asked you a few million times to vote for me in a book club contest? Well, I am now officially at liberty to announce that -- thanks to all of you and your exquisite voting support -- Life After Yes is the final SheKnows Book Club pick of the year! The book club dis

• Are You a Phone Person?

  Yesterday afternoon, my phone rang. Caller ID indicated that it was a good friend of mine who lives in the South and just welcomed her third child a couple of weeks ago. I almost let the call go to voicemail as I do so often with incoming calls. Though busy bonding with Toddler during Baby's nap

• My First Book Review EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Apologies for the capital letters. And for the exclamation points. I am not really an all-caps-and-exclamation-points kind of gal. Not until yesterday. Yesterday was a really big day for me. An important one. And I can't stop smiling. I race to write these words for fear that something

• 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

• Digital Natives: Amazing or Alarming?

  Baby knows how to play (age-appropriate) video games on my iPhone. She is very good at these games. Toddler knows how to surf the Internet; her latest fascination is, appropriately, Halloween costumes on Amazon. Toddler's preschool has a computer lab. She had her very first computer class of the

• Thoughts of the Moment

  Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon Thoughts of the moment: I am feeling lost. But it's a wonderful kind of lost. A dizzying, euphoric, instructive kind of lost. An I-don't-know-what's-coming-but it-will-be-grand ki