I Am My Own Wife

This morning, I'm in the kitchen putting lunches together for me and the kid, and I hear her yell from her crib, "MAMA! I WANT A BO...

In a charmingly clear essay called "The Intentional Fallacy," which I am preparing to teach to my Literary Theory class this week,...

Q. R. H.—Courtship is an indispensable preliminary to marriage. Sebastopol has to be taken by a regular siege. It is the same wit...

One of my colleagues recently referred to me, to my face, as "baby crazy." Hunh. I did not realize I was so transparent. But...

Illustrated London News at Alderman Library In June, I attended a class at the Rare Book School at UVa. We (8 students and 1 professor...

Book review? drafted (and then I found out it's not due until end of June, so I'm a month ahead--victory!--but anyway, it's a do...

This kid eats frozen peas stuck in fresh raspberries. She pretends to apply make-up to her face with a tampon. She gives me "pedicure...