When our daughter was born, she was born too fast. I know, most moms worry about the types that are born too slow! Our son was like that. He wasn’t quite sure he was ready to face the world yet, and so we waited, and waited… Our daughter, on the other hand, hardly made it…

I have a friend who has learned a lot about nutrition and how it affects health. I have been conversing with her because I am chasing down yet another connection between diet and health. (See previous postings [1 2 3] about the articles I wrote on this for Growing Up in Santa Cruz [article 1,…

The other morning I woke up with the realization that I’d been having a stress dream about laundry. Is there really anything more pathetic to have a dream about? I mean, if I’m going to have stress dreams, I’d like to have, let’s see, one about going to Iraq and getting everyone to get along,…

I just wrote the hardest article I’ve ever written. A mom I was talking to at a party suggested an idea that sounded great: write about how families cope when a parent gets a life-threatening illness. And the idea was great. But it was a lot of work. First of all, you just don’t want…

OK, please hold your applause till I’m finished with my statement: Today I cleaned out my recipe book. OK, you can applaud, yell, scream, or laugh, as it suits you. But seriously, sometimes I’m just in the mood to get things done. I don’t remember which feminist it was — she who responded to a…