When I opened the door to two police officers responding to a 911 call from my stepson, I realized stepmom life would never look like I had imagined. I thought I understood the assignment when I married my husband, a father of four. I was ecstatic to form an "instant" family. After all, I’d played...
Tatiana Sviridova/Moment/Getty Images Sometimes the guilt I still carry from my divorce hits me on a random Sunday morning when the house is empty and quiet. There have been many times when my eyes have teared up in the grocery store while watching another couple. And of course I’ll have pangs of longing during the...
Kramer vs. Kramer swept the box office during the 1979 holiday season, earning big bucks and five Academy Awards from seven Oscar nominations. Audiences loved the nuanced story of a divorced couple duking it out for custody of a child, and so did critics like Siskel & Ebert. The duo called it "impressive" and among...
Kemal Yildirim/Getty Images I had heard that breastfeeding could be hard. Sure, lots of things are hard, I thought. Delivering a baby was hard. Wordle can be hard. But until I was experiencing it, I truly had no idea just how hard breastfeeding could be. My story is a unique one — most breastfeeding moms...