Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregn….

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It wi….

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of succe….

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial..

The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can w….

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together f….

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately ….

When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She….

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence..

Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disor….

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them..

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit be….

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction….

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drug….

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and ….

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools..

Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly..

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline..

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and fall….

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had….