One of the hardest times for me as a parent was the year that my son was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
It...
Dedicated to My Amazing Mother in Law.
I love my mother-in-law and she loves me. (My husband jokes that she loves me more than him...
I love running.
I may not be fast, but I enjoy running for long distances and pushing myself physically and especially mentally. As a mom,...
In recent years, since I became a mother twice over, and despite many changes to my body, I’ve embraced my sexuality more than ever...
Dedicated to my friend, as she faces divorce.
Dear friend,
There is no realization quite like the sinking certainty that your marriage can not continue. The...
In every stage of our lives, we are offered advice. As teenagers, we are encouraged to choose a particular college because it was so-and-so’s...
My husband Karl tells me that the first time his parents left him for a weekend away he stayed with his grandparents. He had...
It’s 7:50 p.m. My children are asleep, soundly. My husband pulls a wooden cigar box out of the credenza in our dining room, an...
"Dear House,
I call truce. Seriously, I do. I can't totally surrender, and I can't keep going like this, so we need to make a deal....
A popular saying goes that when couples marry, women think they will change their husbands and men think their wives will never change. Yeah…...
When my husband and I brought our oldest son home from the hospital, I just wasn’t right. I didn't know at the time, but...
When I started working as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in New York in 2006, I was working long days, from about 7:45AM, until anywhere...
Most of us are very familiar with the concept of “once you have kids, say goodbye to romance.”
No, I’m not talking about sex. I’m...
I am insecure. Not all the time, and not in all situations, but insecurity is not a foreign concept to me. It's not something I like...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
