> Project Runway’s Laura Bennett is the woman I grew up wanting to be. She’s always perfectly put together, immaculately dressed and she’s got oodles of talent. She designs incredible outfits (with the exception of last week’s “cruise ship” disaster). She has a dry sense of humor and the voice and delivery of Lauren Bacall. […]

> Moms, do your toddlers have annoyingly wispy baby hair that won’t wrap around hot rollers or hold up under a bottle of White Rain hairspray? I’ve got just what you’re looking for! Yes! Wigs! They’re not just for prostitutes and bald men anymore! Your li’l doll can have a full head of Shirley Temple […]

>The other day, I mentioned the mysterious Soccer Mom Network, which is actually what I believe to be a transmitter in an undisclosed location that beams information into the brains of all the team moms. How else would I explain my innate knowledge of game times, e-mail addresses, and volunteer opportunities for my stepdaughter’s soccer […]

Surprise, surprise. I was a sorority girl. And although I gave it my best effort, somehow going to parties with names like Pimps and Prostitutes and fending off would-be rapists posing as frat boys just wasn’t the kick I thought it would be. At the time, my life in the sorority house was anything but […]

>I have always been a klutz. Move a chair in the room three inches to the right and I’ll crash into it. Leave a shoe or toy on the floor and I’ll trip over it. I typically have at least two or three bruises on my body at all times offering a sore testament to […]

>Trying to sleep while pregnant is damned near impossible. According to the experts, we knocked up women shouldn’t sleep on our stomachs, for obvious reasons. Nor should we sleep on our backs or our right sides, because of some shit about cutting off blood flow to the baby. So my nights are spent hunched on […]

>Soccer season has begun and the gossip is flying faster than a mom who’s late to kindergarten graduation. And so far, an uncomfortable amount of it is about. (Gah.) Me. Honestly, the summer was so long and lazy that I’d almost forgotten about the What-is-She-21? Club. Until I read an e-mail to my husband written […]

>I talked to a friend of mine on the phone yesterday about my pregnancy. As we discussed how I was feeling, her composure unexpectedly cracked. “I’m only now feeling back to normal,” she admitted in a rush. “I’ve had two miscarriages in the last year, a d&c, and went on and off birth control within […]

> When my baby was four months old, I took her to her first play group. It was as much for me as it was for her; I had spent the last six months pretty much in what felt like solitary confinement and desperately needed to interact with other women again. After a few weeks […]

When I was a freshman at the University of Georgia, football Game Days were the first of many rude awakenings I’d have during the next four years. By 8am on Saturday mornings, the lawn outside my dorm window would be filled bumper to bumper with SUVs swathed in red and black streamers and topped with […]