Not long ago, on the way to the airport, I found myself watching in wonderment as a jumbo jet swooped in for a landing right over the top of my taxi.

"A plane! Look at the huge plane!" I nearly shouted.

Then I realized, except for...

Election Day got off to a rousing start over breakfast when my nearly three-year-old son stubbornly announced that he would NOT be going with me to "boat" because he did not want his feet to get wet. This, as his precocious twin sister pointed to a glamorous shot of Governor...

I really do believe that beauty comes from within. But when you've spent half the night at the bedside of a sick child, can't remember the last time you bought (or wore) mascara and despite all of your education, you find yourself unable to complete a sentence by 8PM, it's...

Money may be tight but your jeans don't have to be. Fitness professionals around the country agree that achieving amazing abs and toned thighs is more about your state of mind than the state of your bank account. In fact, trimming your budget may actually give you a...

For many moms, the reminders to do self breast exams go in one ear and out the other. We're busy. We forget. We don't really know if we're doing it right.

Breast cancer survivor Leigh Hurst decided there must be a better way to encourage women to take the time....

Not too long ago, I had my first real brush with the possibility of breast cancer. It was a crazy afternoon and I was racing to get to my annual check-up with my gynecologist. I was late. Traffic was terrible. I was regretting that I had tried to squeeze in...

I will never forget the time I overheard a mom mournfully comment to a friend that her toddler "carries all of her weight in her rear like Mommy." I was horrified. The cute little daughter couldn't have been more than 3 years old and to me, she looked like a...

Angelina is. Halle Berry is. So are Jessica Alba and Christina Aguilera. Open up any celebrity gossip mag these days and along with reports of baby bumps, you're bound to find a "who's who" of breastfeeding. And it's not just People and US Weekly covering the new nursing beat, there...

It had been a restless night. I kept rolling over to check the clock, wondering when would I finally relax enough to drift into sleep. When 5:30am finally arrived, I was wide awake and eager to get to the task I'd been rolling over in my mind for weeks.

When I think back to where my head was in the days and early months of new motherhood, I could barely get dressed some mornings let alone find the time to dissect and digest world problems. For me, a proud personal victory was taking a shower.

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When I was about my daughter's age, family lore has it that I demanded to dress in long ruffled skirts and shiny patent leather shoes for nursery school. Every single day.

So I guess it shouldn't surprise me that my own precious 2 1/2-year-old now dons a...

It was a bright Sunday morning and there we were, sippy cups in hand, stocked diaper bag at the ready racing to make a 9:30AM concert. You have to be hardcore to wake up early enough to get two toddlers washed, dressed, fed and out the door - all before...

Nicole Kidman I was not. It seemed like it took forever to finally look (and feel) like myself again after giving birth to my twins. For more than a year, I toiled with the scale and wrestled with the reality that my body would never quite be the same. Even...

All of the sudden, it feels like every time I go to the supermarket, I'm spending more and more. The sticker shock at the check-out nearly matches the pain at the pump. I will admit, I hardly ever make a list and I end up shopping throughout the week because...

Ever have one of those days when you get from point A to point B and you're not quite sure how you got there? It's scary when you realize that you've lost the time along the way. Okay, don't freak out, but this happens to me a lot when I'm...

It seems like yesterday we were bickering about which one of us deserved the privilege of sitting in the front seat of the station wagon. Whose turn it was to wash the dishes or clean up after the dogs? Who "borrowed" whose brand new sweater? (lip gloss? curling iron? shampoo?)...

They witnessed the scratches, the burns, the hunger and the fear in the eyes of two little boys. Looking back now, relatives, neighbors and family friends admit to reporters they suspected trouble. On two separate coasts, in communities thousands of miles apart, there is a sickening similarity between two recent...

If you've been reading my posts over this last year, you know I am obsessed with women who have turned their motherhood identity shift into something amazing and inspiring. For me, as a mother of young children who took a detour from the career I spent so long building, I...

If you're a mom of young children, I'm guessing Father's Day preps for your husband or partner probably include something along the lines of framing some finger painting or wrapping up a gift (purchased by you) and securing the ever-endearing crayon scribbled card to the box. Cute? Of course. Sentimental?...

We all have down days. You know the ones when you wake up cranky and even if the sun is shining, you're annoyed...or maybe just feeling a little sad or unfocused. You could go on a shopping binge, blow off your work out or spend your day snapping at everyone...