“Mommy, last night I had a dream that Ben kissed me!” my six-year-old daughter Lexi told me excitedly, while perched on my bathroom sink, watching me apply my makeup. more

Remember when your parents used to say things to you like, someday, I hope you have a child that’s exactly like you? Well, I did. And one of the most difficult things about parenthood, for me, is having to put up with my own worst qualities on a daily basis. more

I feel as though I’ve been on a reality show binge lately, what with all the Jon & Kate and Raising Sextuplets madness. And for some reason, the Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood’s fourth season called out to me and made me watch it . . . against my better judgment. more

By all accounts, my husband and I should have been divorced three years ago. We met in college, then spent two years in a long distance relationship, and then I dropped my entire life and moved to a new city where I didn’t know a soul in order to be with him. more

WEtv recently kicked off a brand, spankin’ new TV series with a very familiar premise: Their cameras are following a set of parents who have sextuplets – three girls, three boys – who are 16 months old. The dad works full-time and is gone from the house for the vast majority of the daylight hours, while the mom works part-time as a nurse. more

Move over Drs. McDreamy and McSteamy. Two brainy nurses have come to primetime and they’re kicking some serious behind. And they, frankly, don’t give a whit about hair gel like the Grey’s Anatomy hunky doctors do. more

The economy being what it is, and life being what it is, we have a summer full of… no plans. The original plan -- back before the heart attack, the job layoff, and an overdue book advance—was that my oldest son Edison would go to France for a French immersion language school (borrowing from his college fund set up by grandpa). more

The third season of Army Wives -- one of the few primetime programs which dramatizes the lives of the families of soldiers at a time when the nation’s still engaged in a two-front war -- kicked off Sunday night and the premiere was filled with a whole lot of people grappling with a collective identity crisis. more

I got set up recently with a new friend – it was one of those things where we had a million mutual friends in common, all of whom thought we would really like each other, but somehow, our paths had never crossed. She’s funny, I was told, and smart, and she’s a writer, too. You’ll love her. more

When I tune in, I see a busy, disorganized family, just like mine. Sure, the mom’s a bit unusual because she can talk to the deceased and sometimes sees what she thinks is the future and all of that, but when I think of NBC’s, er, CBS’s drama Medium, I see a typical mom of three who struggles daily with things like keeping on top of the kids’ homework, discipline, house stuff and balancing her and her spouse’s careers . . . except for that communicating-with-the-dead-to-solve-crimes angle. more