Motherhood

Doctors make the worst patients

From single parenthood to life on the road as the every-other-weekend-mom

What is a baby anyway?

The immediate and longer term dangers of a traumatic birth

Why getting a puppy is the best and worst thing you can do before having a baby

I don’t know what I’m doing

On Mother’s Day, I think of Katy, who I loved as my own. I lost her when I lost him.

Without a ticking time bomb in my belly

Today is Monday. It’s the first day of Ramadan and my five-year-old son was admitted to the hospital for acute mastoiditis with suspicion…

Learning How to Be Independent of My Children

Finding Purpose in the Quiet Days without Kids

So she knows about Only Fans. It’s fine, I’m fine.

Becoming a parent taught me that sleep deprivation is deeply uncool

We are not in control

It was May 8th, 2023. I called my sister for no special reason. She picked up the phone. She sounded panicky, on the verge of crying. In…

I may or may not have kicked down our Christmas tree

The angst and attitude are challenging, yes. But here’s the bigger challenge we don’t talk about.

And look who’s racing now

And helped other moms in the process

Explaining The Unexplainable To A Child

Don McLean’s 1971 “American Pie” brims with lyrical genius. The kaleidoscopic allegories for life in the sixties are accompanied by the…

The words that made me realise that Yes, I do.

The birth of us