I love the circus. More, maybe, than most adults. I did, after all, spend a summer at circus school, in San Francisco, after my junior year and in college, I took a theater intensive in "pos...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2018/10/renew-your-faith-in-humanity-at-circus.html
Is it me or are people vacationing more than they used to? When I was a kid,we spent a week at a beach somewhere and we were lucky, lucky dogs, super privileged to be able to do that. Maybe it's...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/07/summer-in-city-and-vacation-envy.html
I have news! My memoir, Now I See You , is now available in paperback at Barnes and Noble , Amazon , Indie Bound and your local independent bookstore -- it's everywhere! "Huh," you are ...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/07/now-i-see-you-now-in-paperback.html
I'm on a John Green kick -- reading Paper Towns now, and just finished An Abundance of Katherines. As a memoirist, this passage, from the end of the book, absolutely slayed me. It's just brimmin...
Behold, The Best Bookstores in the World (according to the Guardian, at least): I've been to four of the ten and one of them -- The Strand -- is my all-time favorite. It was just about one ...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/06/best-bookstores-in-world.html
I have discovered that my toddler has a highly marketable skill, though only if the market in question is Ikea. Terza can name Ikea furniture lines. Now, I know full well that Ikea furniture...
I have some exciting news that I am thrilled to share. Macmillan Kids' Imprint will be publishing the first six books in a new series for children, written by me! The series is called The Fix...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/06/announcing-my-new-series-for-kids.html
Terza is three, which is the age at which, I've noticed, children tend to develop a short-lived phobia of feces. Don't ask me why this happens. I know it has something to do with what they call ...
Seconda's learning about birds in school and had a homework assignment in which she had to write about the morning dove. She did it. But she spelled it "mourning dove." "I'm concerned about ...
Terza spilled birdseed all over the living room floor on a recent Sunday afternoon. I swept it up as best as I could (of course I'm visually impaired so, you know, my best in the sweeping-up-bir...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/05/deferring-housework-or-why-it-took-five.html
My daughters have devised a new game of pretend. It is called, simply, "Goblin." The game is simple. Terza, age 3, is a baby named Goblin. She is not, as I initially thought, a goblin baby. Th...
All five of us love Family Movie Night. The only trouble we tend to run into is choosing a Family Movie. Primo likes movies that are either too scary or too esoteric for the little kids. Seco...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/04/seven-indictments-for-seven-brothers.html
I have an information addiction. I self-medicate with research. I guess it's better than a lot of other addictions, and it comes in handy sometimes, but at other times, it's bothersome and probl...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/04/everyones-parenting-expert.html
Terza is three. This, I have found, is the age at which girls who have big brothers try to pee standing up. The other day, I took her to use her potty and instead of sitting on it, she stood...
Seconda, who is now 8, has been bitten by the pop music bug. It's all about Taylor Swift and Katy Perry and Megan Trainor. The maddening thing about pop music is that it's so damn catchy; as i...
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Few people are more quotable than Helen Keller. She was one smart lady and she knew how to take all that intelligence and distill it down into little, digestible kernels of wisdom. My favorite,...
When I added another child to the family, I greatly multiplied the possibilities for sibling rivalry. If you were a math person, you could compute the exact number of permutations or combination...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-new-insane-perspective-on-sibling.html
It has long been a dream of mine to share my story in the Modern Love section of the New York Times. A few days ago, that dream came true. You can read my story here. If you'er looking fo...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-darkness-and-in-light.html
You have to respond to a pressing email or get dinner in the ocean and your 3 year-old is running amok. What do you do to get 20 minutes to take care of business? You may just dial up Aunt Rita ...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-facetime-babysitter.html
I used to have a lot of opinions on how parents should raise their kids. Then I had children. Little by little, year by year, my opinions grew weaker until they began to disappear alto...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/opinions-on-parenting.html
Larry Hester, who has been totally blind for 33 years, recently saw New York City with restored sight, courtesy of a prosthetic retina.I read about him in this story in People magazine and it...
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Kids go through many gross phases. They eat their boogers and scratch their butts and engage in all sorts of other similiarly distasteful habits frowned upon by medical professionals. Terza is...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/oh-no-she-didnt-babies-licking-gross.html
A few years ago, I picked up this amazing audiobook collection of Grimm's fairytales at my favorite bookstore ever, The Strand. I could listen to the hypnotic narration all freaking day -- it's ...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/03/this-lesser-grimm-fairytale-will-give.html
When Primo was five, he and I broadcast Live! From the Red Carpet (or at least the red pillow on our couch). It was scintillating fashion coverage, his very first; you won't want to miss Primo's ...
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Yesterday, I gave Terza an apple. A half hour later, she came to me with a very chagrined look on her face. "Mommy!" she said. "There is yucky stuff inside this apple!" By which she meant ...
http://amomamok.blogspot.com/2015/02/when-you-plant-apple-seed-you-get.html