The Portable Mother

In Hispanic culture there is a concept called a comadre or co-mother. A comadre was originally the Godmother in a child's baptism. Bei...

Someday, I swear, you will thank me for this. I wish someone had told me how to pee in a bedpan. Because: IT IS REALLY HARD! You never even ...

When I had knee surgery I thought: you have the surgery, you spend a few weeks in bed, then you go about your life. Wrong. Recovery is a lon...

Here are some tips that I'll share from my recent knee surgery. Surgery IS a big deal . Mentally and physically. Take it seriously. Info...

...And letting myself be Mothered by my friends. That's what women friends do. We Mother each other. Like right now. I'm home from...

My son is celebrating his first Thanksgiving away from home, in another country. He has taken his place in the world. He made his own travel...

One August during a curiously stressful visit by my Mother, it was time to decide whether I’d take the children to her house for Christmas—a...