Political wife Elizabeth Edwards’ new memoir, Resilience, became a best-seller before it was officially published last Friday. Conveniently launched in time for a Mother’s Day blitz, the book hit the media jackpot with appearances on Oprah, NPR’s All Things Considered, The Today Show and People Magazine. more

Like much of the division of labor in our household, my relinquishment of business trips was gradual, messy, and undiscussed. In retrospect the trend seems logical. But the real story: going from zero to three kids in five years while juggling kids and career obliterated any rational choice, for both my husband and myself. more

Curvaceous, suspiciously symmetrical cleavage bursting out of a tight bodice, heavy eye makeup, long lush hair...a bod and a come-hither look that begged for ravishment…Those Cosmo cover girls once represented, for me, the epitome of female sexuality. more

The call came Monday after a frantic juggle-everything morning in which I’d been out of the house since 7 am. I’d taken the kids to school, gone to a doctor’s appointment, and stopped back at school for my seven-year-old’s static electricity science project presentation (think: wool sweater, a balloon, adorable lisping demonstrations). more

A few months ago, my husband went out of town suddenly on a Saturday night. Rather than cancel our babysitter (God forbid) I went to the movies alone. Twilight was the movie I chose, figuring my husband would not moan over missing a teenage chic flick. more

“I heard on the radio that your husband choked you,” my ten year old daughter said yesterday. Not words I’d ever expected to hear as I imagined raising kids. But a decade ago, while on maternity leave taking care of my toddler son and infant daughter I began a book exploring my disastrous first marriage to a man who physically abused me. more

Last month, my husband of 14 years gave me a shiny red iPod as an early Valentine’s gift. One afternoon, waiting for the kids to rush out the school door to my car, I had my headphones tuned to pop singer Rihanna’s “Live Your Life.” Soon after I heard that R&B star Chris Brown had attacked a young woman in a silver Lamborghini in Los Angeles just hours before the 51st Grammys. more

Open the paper, click on a newsite, turn on a tv or radio, and today’s terrible economic news dominates. As it should, I guess. We are all feeling the financial crush. But as usual, there IS a silver lining: we are all dissecting “the mommy wars” yet again – battles that have little do to with working v. stay-at-home moms and everything to do with how our society views women’s roles. more

My friend Sharon has always been a tad more practical than most when it comes to love and marriage. While I was trying to figure out how intoxicating a guy smelled on our first date, Sharon was asking HER first dates how they felt about sharing breadwinning and childcare duties 50/50. more

One of the scariest transformations of early motherhood is the sudden, stark understanding of how vulnerable babies and young children are. Not just my kids. All kids. As I wrote this, waiting for my flight at 9 pm at the Los Angeles airport, a baby too young to lift his head cried on the dirty gate-area floor. more