Last Tuesday morning, Sophie followed me into the bathroom, took my hand, and placed it over her One Direction pajamas, over the big bump on her chest where the bones mended — first, when she was 4 months old, then 4 years. “How does your heart feel?” I asked, smiling. “Good!” she said. “I don’t […]

Live by the sticker, die by the sticker. That’s how it seems in our world — Sophie’s world — these days. Sophie was not behaving at school last fall, so her “team” started a daily sticker chart. For now, anyway, it works like a dream. Particularly when it’s a Justin Bieber sticker she’s getting. But it’s not just […]

Home Remedy. That was the assignment for last night’s Mothers Who Write class — the workshop I’ve co-taught for years with my dear friend Deborah Sussman Susser. We wanted our students to write about health care, but frankly, we weren’t interested in 15 essays about health care reform. So the ever-wise Deborah came up with […]