I want you to think of a penny. Are you picturing it?

Perfect.

Now, I want you to turn it over in your hands, noticing the word YES marked clearly on one side and the word NO, boldly labelled on the other. 

I’d like you to imagine throwing that penny up in the air - seeing how high you...

It’s the most unnatural, natural thing I’ve ever done. 

That was Amy, the first of my girlfriends to have a baby which, to my 20-something, still in school and travelling the world self, felt a million years away. I couldn’t connect to her experience at all. 

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Last night, I was clearing out closets and drawers filled with crinkly class pictures, forgotten report cards that had once caused tears, Mother's Day crafts, and old credit card statements (which are so revealing and fun to look at!!) and I found a family "Home Book" I had...

When Winnie was 18 months old we travelled to the UK - just like we did this year - albeit for only 2 weeks. We went to London and Dublin and maybe some other places... I don't quite remember because I was pregnant with Pippa - an event I wasn't planning for or aware of until I started...

I was scrolling through Facebook over the weekend, trying to leave witty happy birthday messages that'd beat all the other birthday messages, when I noticed that my home feed was reading like a doomsday roster.

"What else is new?" I know you're wondering, with an audible eye roll - as...

I'm standing on top of Primrose Hill, London - a place I stood at the age of 19, regularly through my 20s, at 37 and now - once at again - at 42.

A wild and surreal marking of time made possible by the scientific miracle of transatlantic flight, a carefully allotted travel...