Some of the best things in my life arrived by happenstance—unplanned, unscripted, often disguised as the worst thing that ever happened to me. This is where I write about all of it: starting over, raising two boys, building something from the ground up.
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WTF Is Happening Here?
I have watched the video of the “multitasking mother” at the Giants game probably a thousand times since yesterday. I’m not going to share it here because, quite honestly, I don’t want to make her perform for us again. At this point, I most...
A little dispatch from the chaos
I just wanted to pop in and say that life is very much life-ing over here right now. I realized we’ve had some big conversations in this community lately about divorce and sex and domestic labor and September and, of course, weaponized poop...
We Need to Talk About Weaponized Pooping
Weaponized pooping, whether intentional or unintentional, has been happening in homes since the beginning of time.
In fact, one of my strongest childhood memories is sitting on the top of the staircase in my childhood home, impatiently wai...
Why Is September Divorce Month?
When I was younger, every September, sometime before school started, a little paperback address book would arrive in the mail.
Growing up in New York, school always started after Labor Day then, which meant there was this very specific str...
Who Gets to Stay a Person After a Baby?
When my first son was born, my then-husband took about five vacation days from work. I want to be precise about that because it wasn’t paternity leave, really. It was five days he had accumulated at his job that he used because we had just...
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CEO and co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry; credited by NY Mag with "destigmatizing divorce." Writer, podcaster, and author of Divorce Happens (Sheldon Press, 2027). Divorce is not a failure. It's a fresh start. Your big sister of divorce.
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