Baby Strain My first thought when I heard that former NFL player Tiki Barber was leaving his pregnant wife for a 23-year-old intern was what a jerk. Then I found myself wondering if baby strain played a role. What’s baby strain? It’s my unscientific name for the toll having young children can have on your [...]

I Need More Than “It Was Fine” Our 6-year-old son, N, has been dying to play baseball for over a year, so he was thrilled when baseball evaluations finally arrived. Fred agreed to take him while I stayed home with the other two kids. I’ve always been a huge baseball fan. Thoughts of our son’s playing in [...]

I Married a Food Snob “There’s a difference between heating up and cooking,” a friend said recently. He meant it as a dig at his non-cooking, mother-in-law. Others at the dinner table laughed and nodded knowingly. I didn’t say a word, hoping that hubby wouldn’t call me out among friends, but we both knew the [...]

Forever Was a Daunting Prospect Forever was a daunting prospect. When my husband proposed 14 years ago, it wasn’t marriage that I couldn’t fathom. It was that it would actually last. In my family, the only thing more popular than marriage, was re-marriage. Out of more than a dozen marriages in my family, only my [...]