One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

Remember the fuss over Salma Hayek being “abusive” because she was “still” feeding her toddler? Salma Hayek took a humanitarian trip to Sierra Leone. This video[1] shows her being there for the death of a baby from tetanus, speaking to a UNICEF representative, and travelling ...

….if it’s not one thing, it’s another.  I honestly never thought motherhood would be this hard.  No…wait.  I knew it would be hard, challenging…but I didn’t think FEEDING my baby would be so difficult. I met with the lactation consultant…things were good ...

The other night I went into Jack's room after he was asleep and there was a sippy cup half full of milk still there that Jack had not finished.  I wondered if it was too late to put it in the fridge again. And then I wondered if that was cheap of me. I pictured myself throwing it away and then ...