Be prepared. About two weeks after the wedding, it will finally sink in, and you will wonder, Oh My God. What Have I Done? This is normal. Just be warned that it will happen.
That’s a paraphrase of some advice my mother-in-law gave me on Thanksgiving (day before the wedding). She […]

A new book by one of my favorite bloggers is now available on Amazon.

Motherhood is Not for Wimps: No Answers, Just Stories
After a couple of years’ reading Liz’s stories about Mary, the baralicious pregnancy, then the wonder that is Renny-Roo, I feel like I know these folks. They help me feel sane AND make […]

No time to navel-gaze today, but do take a look at Andrew Solomon’s column from today’s New York Times:

Our Great Depression
Following this model, the National Institute of Mental Health should coordinate and subsidize a national network of depression centers, ideally based at research universities with good hospitals and departments devoted to the subject.
The University of […]

If you’ve stopped by much at all lately, you know my blogging has dwindled down to pretty much nil — especially since I moved to Santa Fe.
While I *could* blame this on the upcoming wedding, that’s not it. I’ve realized something — I have no time to myself.
What? Wait a second, don’t you […]

(cross-posted at Maya’s Meanderings
Yes, I know — I haven’t posted in ages. I’ll start catching up before long, but this was just too good to not link.
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Mary P. wrote a post that I wish I’d written — about parents’ attitudes toward their children and sex.
When I was a young married with a baby girl, […]

First: News
Nope, not mine this time — I literally mean “the news.” Jim Wallis (Sojourners) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) will be on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric this evening to discus the “Moral Direction of our Country.” I’m recording it, and if there’s anything worth talking (or ranting) about, […]

Keep reading for a moment or two before you retchingly assume I’m about to spew saccharine.
First things first, between returning to Effexor in mid-July and having a severe loss of appetite related to the whole love-thing, I’m now back to roughly my pre-pregnancy weight (upper 130s). I say roughly, because as a girl who […]

Monday’s post followed along a path I’ve seen before, one where I’ve been convinced that there’s a specific “normal” path to follow, just to be reminded that it’s okay for me to be me.
A few years ago, I first started to actively reconnect with my own Sprituality, but bucked hard at the idea of Christianity, […]

…I might as well be paid for what I do normally. What an afternoon.
One friend miscarried and wanted help writing a way to let her family know about it (she’d only just told them). Another is frustrated with her job and working too many hours, but not quite prepared to let her […]

The girl sits in the classroom, in her tattered red shirt that she’s chewed on during anxiety. The teacher continues to talk, but it sounds like the wah-wah-wah of a Peanuts adult. The other kids seem to follow her, and no one notices that the girl is lost and scared. She’s alone, […]

God
Please watch over the patients in the hospital
and let them
live
another day,
even if they hoped that they would never awake from
Maria shares a prayer, and reminds me yet again why I can imagine becoming a psychologist, but not a psychiatrist.
Without even trying, she also expresses how I often feel about God: questioning, angry, but still looking […]

I’m still giggling at this post over at Partners in Parenting. That’s likely, because I can completely imagine saying exactly the same thing.
Let’s teach the kid empathy, shall we?

The other day, I was talking to my hiking partner about dating — she’s been married nine years and never really did the dating-as-an-adult thing. She lives vicariously through my experience and frequently comments how glad she is to NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Can’t say I blame her.
Anyway, we were talking about […]

I (heart) my DVR. Because of it, I rarely watch any advertising. Last night, however, as the second back-to-back episode of House ended, I didn’t fast forward, and an ad caught my attention.
Scene: Family weekend outing. Everyone is smiling, laughing, and enjoying their time around town. It’s your basic no-one-is-that-happy-and-beautiful family […]

From today’s NYTimes: He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t
Retaliation is a normal human impulse…
After all, it is wrong to punch anyone except a puncher, and our language even has special words — like “retaliation” and “retribution” and “revenge” — whose common prefix is meant to remind us that a punch thrown second is […]