Here’s a link to my guest blog at MotherhoodLater…ThanSooner – an on and offline community/resource serving those parenting later in life, with chapters nationwide and beyond. Their mission is to connect, empower and inform those who became moms at age
Mother Knows Best Woman gives birth at 70 — isn’t that ridiculous? Or worse, isn’t it unethical, to bear kids you might not be around to see into adulthood? Those aren’t my questions — they’re the undertow in all the
Here’s a piece from earlier this year: Ready or Not? What do Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama have in common? They all began their families at relatively advanced ages. Hillary was 32 when she had Chelsea in 1980,
The other day I had my hair done and came home with a bit of a flip–not my usual style. My elder daughter noticed and remarked that “you look like Ann Marie.” If that doesn’t ring a bell for you,
Later moms are taking to the big screen this month and drawing a big crowd: even my mama has seen Baby Mama already. Nice to see Philadelphia (my home town) in the background there. I expect she’ll be off to
Last fall, Ready was featured in a pre-publication piece in TimeOutNYfor Kids –and I learned there about a great community of later moms, also featured in the issue . Motherhoodlater.com offers online information and experience sharing for women who had
Today’s New York Times Home section cited me as background to their discussion of the way later parenthood intersects with furniture. If you’ve already invested lots of thought and money in your décor, what happens when the kids come along?