I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret..

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, t….

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. The….

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

When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just fak….

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee..

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first..

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

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and….

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….

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs….

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom..

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use..

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….

I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate….

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger..

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popco….

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….

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in ….

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….