For any of the nice ladies who occasionally send me emails asking if I want to set up a playdate or play group for our kids, I’ve created a nice handy list of the types of playdates that I revel in.
I will gladly attend a play group or play date in which any of the […]

This is for all of us who are less than we dreamed we’d be, or more, depending on the day… we lose ourselves in the rush and the rain.. watching as the seductress makes way for the mommy and wife… and wait patiently for her return.
One of my favorite poets, Deborah Garrison, writes about […]

Gettling laid? No? Yes? Come on, you can trust me, I won’t tell a soul. I’ll just write up a little something. It won’t hurt a bit. But let me tell you, parents writing and thinking about sex is a good thing (especially if the writing and the thinking don’t replace […]

Honest question.
I wonder sometimes at my seemingly easy ability to get overwhelmed when all three of my kids talk at me (over and under each other like waves on the beach) and the bass-line covered by my husband as he comes home and tells me things about work and politics and “did you know?” […]

You’d think I would not have been surprised and discomfited by a plaintive question over breakfast: “Mommy, when is the Easter Bunny coming?”
Naughty Mommy was betting that the little people were still little enough to “forget” that Easter in these parts = eggs filled with candy. What a dope. The South-Beachification of our […]