As I sat on a plastic chair in a nondescript waiting room anticipating the announcement of a name that didn’t even belong to me, I paused to think about everything that had led me to this moment.  As a 20 year old junior English major at the University of Dayton in Ohio, the pediatrician’s office was not on my original list of vacation hot spots for this past fall break. However, that’s where I landed when I accepted a challenge that I had not really prepared myself for: a crash course in motherhood. Through friends of friends, I had been offered a week-long nanny job for three adorable... (Read More ...)

When American Pie was unleashed in movie theatres across the country, it made a splash in pop-culture history, introducing MILF, the immortal phrase coined by horny young men for attractive moms. Author Sarah Maizes is changin the way MILF is used, and is ready to back it up not with sugar and cream, but with an empowering, confident, and assertive battle-cry for moms to be proud of. GOT MILF?: The Modern Mom’s Guide To Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great, and Rocking a Minivan (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; April 2011) introduces the revolutionary idea that women can embrace motherhood and... (Read More ...)