When you are a Mother, two things are consistently true: you will doubt yourself and you will pee yourself when you sneeze. Unless you are the kind of mother who didn’t grow the baby in …
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a mother
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to all the young women
For the last month and some change, I’ve been staying at corporate apartments in buildings in Chicago that are filled with literal Young Urban Professionals. Their gyms are teeming with young beautiful women and I …
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six months
Here I am, hemming and hawing over being away from Mo and Joe for TWO WEEKS, making theater, meanwhile my little brother Tim deployed last night to Japan, for SIX ENTIRE MONTHS away from his …
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which came first
My suddenly feeling like my hair is thinning, or falling out? Because of Joe, or age, or both? Or my suddenly being inundated with ads for thinning hair vitamins and serums and shampoos that swear …
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girl with many necklaces
Ingrid gave us all these beautiful tiny notebook necklaces, which reminds me a burning question I’ve always wanted to ask: THE WOMEN WHO WEAR 90 TINY NECKLACES AT ONE TIME, HOW DO YOU DO IT. …
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it’s fine, I’m fine
Coming off of two weeks of travel, family time, writing an episode, having a toddler suddenly, prepping to head off to Chicago for the Notebook for two months, brain fried, with lists and tasks, just …
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WHY WHY WHY
A few weeks back, before heading to a concert, my friend and I spent the whole day texting NOT about how wasted we were going to get that night but instead planning how we would …
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a fine whine
Me, when encountering travel stress (cancelled flights and missed connections with a toddler): whine, worry, freak out, assume the worst. Morrison: consume as much red wine as your constitution allows, que sera sera, let go …
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monthly
Here’s what it’s like to be a woman: every month, one morning, you wake up and you feel different. Suddenly everything feels fragile and terrifying but also beautiful and profound. You’re regretful, you obsess over …
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Mind Body Connection
Physical Therapist: Okay, now try to do it without tilting your pelvis. Me: What? Physical Therapist: See how you’re tilting your pelvis, when you lift your leg like that? Me:…….. Physical Therapist: Watch me do …