Eww. In Florida, at 9:13 pm, while innocently reading my book after a long day of visiting my mother, some 90-year old couple in the apartment above me started making […]

Stuck. That’s my takeaway whenever people tell me why they CAN’T do something they have a deep yearning for. I’ve been anxious for two thirds of my life, but I’ve […]

“If I had a mother like me, think what I could have become!” That’s what I say to my children, now that they’re adults. It’s usually precipitated by me trying […]

“I have phone sex every Tuesday.” That’s what I reply in exasperation to Funk and the kids whenever they text me just before I’m about to get on a call […]

“Funk. This really sucks.” When I was pregnant with my firstborn, that’s what I used to grumble to my husband about having to get up every hour in the middle […]

I landed a BookBub Featured Deal, which is a really big deal. It’s like hitting the motherlode. I can hardly believe my luck. BookBub is considered the most prestigious book […]

“Funk. Why do I have to use an asterisk when I write the word f*ck?” “Because it’s cute.” “It’s not cute, it’s totally phony.” My husband gave me the look […]

Conversations that matter. I had a friend once. Or, I thought I had a friend. We met in childbirth class. It was her first pregnancy, my second. Both of us […]

Funk never gets jealous. Ever. Not very Italian of him. But him being a mutt and all, I guess that makes sense. In the family I grew up in, jealously […]

“Shut up and eat your f*cking ice cream.” I have a lot of favorite lines, but that’s one of my all-time favorites. It was uttered by 5-year old Madeleine, a […]