If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running o….

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other peopl….

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….

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..

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I ad….

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'.

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally..

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working..

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a J….

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists an….

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 was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested..

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies ont….

When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocrit….

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that….

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injus….

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's k….

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband ….

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail..

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figur….

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on ….