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Are American Mothers Giving Each Other the Silent Treatment?
Outside a gilded, eight-hundred year old pagoda in a part of Burma that is rapidly developing but still holds the charm of the country’s ox cart-driven, cloistered recent history, I walked through...
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What Happens When You Marry into a Profession with a Staggering Divorce Rate?
Earlier this week, we received news that a friend and former co-worker of my husband’s was going through a separation with his wife. Earlier this month, the same friend had gotten a new football...
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I Am Not a Cool Mom
When I was growing up, I thought most parents were cooler than my own. The coolest parents of all were the considerably younger ones; a second-grade classmate’s mom was twenty-three and wore cut-off...
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From Self-Harm to Self-Love
Note: This post deals with the subjects of cutting and self-harm. In high school, I used to cut myself with a butter knife. Locked in public bathrooms–at school, in the cafeteria at work, or, perhaps...
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There’s No Right Way to Be a Mom
Soon after I became a mother, I was exposed to a motherhood reality that I never knew existed: the “mommy wars.” Ignoring the generally offensive nature of the term, the concept originated from the...
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Am I a Selfish Parent if I Have Only One Child?
If having one child is selfish, I’m not sure I want to be any other way. You know how before you get married, everyone’s asking when you’ll get married? And after you get married, the first thing...
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What Happens When Type-A People Plan for Pregnancy
Down here, on the southern side of the world, The Holidays means summer. If we’re lucky—and this year we were—we can barbecue for Christmas dinner, spend New Year’s on the beach. Those of us blessed...
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United We Parent: Raising Teens and Loving It
For those of you who are contemplating children, but are afraid that they will ruin your relationship, I am here to tell you that having kids does not have to signal the end of your marriage. And for...
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First Time Motherhood: My Identity Crisis that Wasn’t
Two years ago, a month after our son was born, I found myself staring at our fridge. It had always been a visual representation of what was going on in our lives, and suddenly it was covered with...
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Don’t Assume I Didn’t Consider an Abortion
In 2002, I felt sick for weeks before it occurred to me that I could be pregnant; until I was literally throwing up one morning, it was an unfathomable concept. Yet there it was, a “plus” sign on the...
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Secrets of Gay Parenting
Last summer my partner and I sat baby-poolside while our boys splashed. Suddenly our then-five-year-old son leapt out of the pool, ran to me, and wrapped his wet arms around my head to pull my ear to...
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What Happened When My Dad Sprung a Surprise Remarriage On Me
I always knew, growing up, that my parents had a bad marriage. I wasn’t stupid. Some dads didn’t live in the basement. Some moms came in the door without screaming at everything in the house. I could...
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Should We Be Upset That Millennial Women Are Sacrificing Careers More Easily?
When Michael and I got together as teenagers and decided that we were going to try and make this budding romance into a forever relationship, I made him promise me one thing: that when we had kids, he...
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Giving up My Career to Be a Mother Wasn’t an Option
I like to tell people that my child and my business have grown up together, but the reality is that this is less of a joke and actually just how my family has been living the past seven years. I got...
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Open Thread: Would You Give Up Everything to Live More Simply?
In February of this year I was a successful photographer paying rent on two studios, one glass office in midtown, a big house, and school tuition for my son. In February of this year my family also...
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Open Thread: How Do You Raise Your Son to Be a Feminist?
Recently, my husband SD and I got into a discussion over my choice of books for our now-two-year-old son. An Amazon package had arrived in the mail that day containing a few superhero books. The...
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My Hypothetical Baby Is Ruining Everything
Inever thought I’d be someone who would be sad about her age. As one of the oldest in my grade, I had consistently met birthdays with a giddy, head-on mentality. Being oldest meant doing everything...
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Secrets of a #Bossbitch: On Parenthood, Marriage, and Leaning In
In 2014, I received a series of very pleasant emails from a publisher suggesting that I might want to write a book. I was invited to come pitch. I talked about how what I do at GetBullish is like Lean...
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Staying Home With Kids is Great, But it’s Not Exactly a Choice.
I am a stay-at-home parent with two small humans. As any parent knows, this gig is exhausting. My husband and I both had crying jags this morning, it’s been a rough week. The hardest part in weeks...
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10 Tips for Staying Friends After Someone Has Kids
Out of all the relationships I’ve made and witnessed since having a kid, I find myself consistently stunned that so many parent/non-parent friendships are fraught with tension, hurt feelings, and...
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