Stephanie Klein Greek Tragedy

The panelists introduced themselves, each sharing a small story that identified them as mothers of NICU twins, of a child with down syndrome, of a son with autism. Hearing one mother of an autistic child share a story of how…

Abigail has a mullet. Poor thing just has the thinnest hair ever. She rips out anything I pin on, and if she doesn’t, Luke does. That’s right, Luke. I call them all sorts of things: Abby, Abigail, Abs of Steel.…

I started to cry when I saw a little Asian girl clutching at her Anglo mamma’s hand today at the airport. Seeing her reminded me of an article I’d once read on an airplane about adoption. In the piece, the…

I don't watch Desperate Housewives. I've seen it a few times, but I've never been an orthodox viewer. As I scrambled to compose yet another to-do list the other night, a preview for the show popped on, and I thought,…

I felt myself holding back tears at dinner. We went out tonight with a couple whose child is in the NICU. I wanted to show them how much we understood without making it about us and what we’d been through.…

It was bound to happen. So now it’s out of the way. I grabbed a handful of your hair and chopped it off. Better now than when you’re eight and on the verge of a bratfest. It’s hideous, and I’m…

"Heyyyy! So you landed? You’re all safe?""Yup. What did your message say? I haven’t listened to it.""Nothing. Just, I love you. Work is on the other line… I have to go. See you soon."
Normally, this would be, well, normal.…

I’m getting tired of keeping up. I wonder when I’ll get to the point where I can stop working so hard. Networking, marketing, alliances. It’s all thinking, and while it can be very exciting, in the long spread of things,…