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When my son was placed in my arms for the first time, I waited. I waited for every transcendent emotion people always talk about feeling when meeting their first child for the first time to descend on my exhausted body

Friends who listen are the lifelines you never realized you couldn’t live without until you wanted to know you aren’t the only mom who has thrown a box of graham crackers across the kitchen because of undiluted frustration and exhaustion. It’s texts sent at three a.m. even though you know they aren’t awake, or at least they shouldn’t be, but you know they’ll write back at the crack of dawn when their feet hit the floor. I’ve tried to funnel my thoughts into words when they feel so tangled it doesn’t seem like they will all come out. Who say, sometimes, they think about what might have been if they had made another choice, even if they wouldn’t change anything about their life.

Of all the burdens we carry as women, I would say one of the greatest of these would be the habit of comparison. We do it to ourselves, and at times it’s like we don’t even know we are doing it

The Academy Awards were last night. A glamorous party, full of glamorous and important people?? Somehow, I think my invitation was lost in the mail or something