It is the middle of winter. 6:30 am. My phone alarm plays a Coldplay song into my foggy dreams.  Snooze.  I toss instead of sleep, as my waking consciousness recalls...

Are either of you home? I want to drop some things off for work! Her text dings around 5:30 p.m., a group text to me and my husband. I was...

One of my daughters is very much like me, both the good and my (perceived) not so good characteristics.  She’s apprehensive about change, a worrier, a little too serious sometimes,...

Short answer: the truth. Long answer: the truth. (Really, that is a long answer!) The reality is that we are parenting in a time when politics are more polarizing than...

As a young woman in India, my life was going as planned. I graduated from university, I got a job… and I did not worry about what I would do...

My 4 year old son is my Sunshine Baby. For those of you who don’t know what a “sunshine baby” is, it’s a baby you have before experiencing the loss...

While many quick to think parents tackle the feat of sleep training their baby when they’re a few months old, we had the awesome idea of waiting until our baby...

As I approached a week past my due date with my first daughter, the doctor spoke of inducement.  The baby’s due date was February 22nd of 2008, and 2008 happened...

Once upon a time, within the span of a month, my life changed. An abridged version of the story fits easily into haiku: Had my first baby. Quit my job....

I can’t believe it’s been almost exactly one full year since I last talked about my brother Noah on Twin Cities Family, A Child’s Perception of Life Behind Walls. What’s...

It isn’t enough that we obsessively show and tell our children we love them. We also have to teach them to love themselves; to believe they are worthy and to...

It was the end of the bedtime marathon and I was ready to take my victory lap. My youngest was asleep, or nearly so, in his room. I’d changed his...

  What will life look like in 20 years? I don’t have a crystal ball, but I highly suspect that these facts will be true: I’ll find my current wardrobe...