The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #174: The, Like, Show. Deadass Edition

Talking to teenagers is different from talking to grown-ups. We wanted to know: what advice they would give to parents?

EPISODE #143: It’s A Real Mother, Part 3: The Cliff

Hillary tells her own story about becoming a working mom, and the career cliff she faced as a result. Then, we travel to a company that’s flipping the ideal American workplace totally upside down… by inviting screaming, pooping infants into the office.

The Song You Made Up

*NOTE: Please read this one to the end, where I make my first ever request for YOUR audio! —HF ***** For awhile there, Sasha did nothing but scream when she was with me. If other people were around, she would giggle and play tag and show off her (yikes!) tricks on the monkey bars. And […]

Drawing Obsession: Flushing

She gives in to underpants. And learns to float!

The Little Girl Who Lived in France

I can’t believe that in all the time I’ve been writing this blog, I have not yet introduced you to Bop-bop. Bop-bop lives in France. She is sometimes a little girl, sometimes a baby, and sometimes and woman. She is always a she, because only “she’s” live in France. She is invisible, but you must […]

Jumping In

About a month ago another mom and I signed our daughters up for kid-only swim classes, which you can start taking at our Y once you turn three. Sasha and her pal turned three just two days apart, and they had both been in the same mommy & me class for awhile. They were also […]

We Can’t Stop: Skill Building Edition

Over the Christmas break, my husband and I went on a Sasha-less overnight excursion and left Sasha with my parents at their house. This is the second time we’ve done that, but Sasha was too young the first time to remember it. Word has it, she had a blast. Playing on the playground at the […]

Yes Shit: The Long Overdue Conclusion

Apologies for leaving you hanging three months—a quarter of a year!—to find out if Sasha ever got back in the tub again. It took about a third of that time to get it to happen and there have been a lot of other intense things in the meantime that have made it impossible for me […]