What does it say about us that both the Washington Post and the New York Times chose to put the story about the end of the FDA ban on silicone breast implants on their front pages? (Above the fold.) I'm reading the cla…

It takes a pretty strait-laced crowd to make a clean-living girl like me feel like a hedonist, but that's what happened last night when we attended a party at the commune-o-crunchiness on the next street. Not only wa…

I don't know if I deserve a medal, or "worst mother of the year" censure. Ordinarily, Mad Scientist and Drama Queen take the bus to school, but today I drove them. We were in a big hurry and everyone was in a bad…

Last night, Jon and I permanently evicted Mr. McP from our bed. Every night we go through the tedious process of getting him to sleep in his own bed, and every night he creeps into our bed when we're sound asleep an…

I am something of a masochist and so am irresistibly drawn to mainstream parenting magazines. If I’m in the library and I see there’s a new issue of Parents or Child, I’ve got to at least leaf through it to see how ina…