Yesterday my mom brought over a journal she kept for the first couple years of my life. Odd similarities between me and Sasha. And some very different things (see diet).
If you’ve been reading this blog for the last couple months, you know all about how nobody in our family slept for weeks after Sasha broke her leg. Some of you offered theories about how my own anxiety might be contributing to Sasha’s inability to sleep, or how having another person putting her to bed […]
A few weeks ago Sasha began to discover that there were all kinds of things in this world that I won’t let her do. Like follow a big white dog into an apartment building. Or run around the house with an open bubbles container. Or drink sunscreen from the tube (or at all). There’s been […]
My friend Sean doesn’t have kids. He recently told me that he got excited when his pals started procreating because he could finally ask people what having children was like and get an honest answer. That conversation prompted him to interview me for his fill-in hosting gig at The Story with Dick Gordon (but temporarily […]
An exasperated mom decides that her daughter WILL nap in her crib by the end of the week.
My friend Kristin and I reminisce over our frequent angsty phone calls after our daughters were born. And she reveals something to me she’s never told me before.
First it was bathing suits, then jackets and sweaters. Then underpants. How far would Joyce’s daughter take this anti-clothes thing?
Listener Kate Bowman-Johnston recently interviewed me for the online magazine Catapult. I could tell from her questions that she totally got LST. And her article showed me that I was right. Read about Kate’s longest shortest time here. It involves Sitz baths and crying in the bathroom. And a song to help you get through […]