As a pediatrician, I got the chance to preview parenthood in more detail than many people likely do. The five-year-old little boy who clut...

It’s kind of hard to say goodbye to hormonal birth control when it’s been so good to you for so long. I started taking the pill as a teenag...

Living in DC and taking the metro regularly provides me with ample fodder for social analysis and ample opportunities to be upset and amaz...

I finally did it.  I wrote a blog.  I have been dragging my feet for weeks!  You see, I had been told that I had stories to share, and I hav...

I am in a state of slow, silent, ever-evolving panic. I just looked over at my 10-year-old daughter (soon to be 11), and for a second I...

“Douche bag!” My tween son hurls at his brother in the car on the way to a picnic. “What was that?” I counter. “Douche bag.” He returns ...