It’s Tuesday night and I find myself getting ready to drive over to Babeland for an event called “Sexy Mamas,” which promises to teach us the secrets of “having it all” (sex, sanity and sleep).  There’ll be a panel of experts who will school us in the secrets of rekindling desire, embracing our mom bodies, and […]

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Remember what I wrote last week? You know, the mile-long list of how motherhood gets in the way of a perfectly orgasmic sex life? Well, I wasn’t just making that stuff up. Because, look. Here. Even the Wall Street Journal says it’s true. And when WSJ says parents’ sex lives suck, you know they mean […]

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Before I married the dreadfully charming Mr. Right, I read a book called Marriage Shock by Dalma Heyn. It’s one of those self-helpy books about how marriage can change women—not just for better, but for worse. It was sobering and not a little distressing, but I thought it important to pull my head from the […]

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Nobody ever wants to admit that there are gender roles in marriage. Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. Let me rephrase that; I don’t want to admit that there are gender roles in my marriage. I like to think that The King and I are equals. That we both pull our own weight. That […]

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The recent travel schedule of the dreadfully charming Mr. Right would put a touring rock band to shame. Vegas. China. California. Paris. Germany. England. New York. He’s become a Globetrotter and the list just keeps dribbling on.
All this distance has got me thinking.
It used to be I was weighted by his absence, carrying it in […]

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We woke up on Saturday to sunshine and blue skies. Jay, who spends the week lit by fluorescent lighting and the flicker of his computer screen, announced that WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!
So, good wife and family activity organizer that I am, I leap for my computer. Click click click… “AHA! Here’s something… how about […]

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