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Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. "No offense, but you don't exactly look like a par...more

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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I on...more

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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I onc...more

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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

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But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's n...more

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(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

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It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now...more

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Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

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Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And...more

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If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you...more

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At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone...more

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When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest p...more

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What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bri...more