I have a guest blog up at Greg Olear’s Fathermucker website today, in which I recognize that being an artist can often make me a bad parent. Read it to see me cuss not once but three times (and that was edited down significantly).

And here’s the…

A friend just sent me this pic from a Barnes and Noble “New in Paperback” table. So I guess it’s on the shelves, even if it doesn’t come out officially until Tuesday.

Here we go…

You know- before I actually was a mom.

Read my new TODAY Moms blog post about the tyranny of perfection.

You know- before I actually was a mom.

Read my new TODAY Moms blog post about the tyranny of perfection.

I’m the subject of a couple of articles that posted today, one in Femomist and one at theAnti-Room. Thanks to Heather Cox and Clare Kleinedler for being so…

Now that this thing is actually happening I guess it’s time to tell you what I’ve been working on. I haven’t been talking about it much because I think you can easily squash a creative idea by yakking about it too early in the process. I’ve been writing a show for the past few months and I’ll be appearing in it on…

For some reason it always feels like at the last minute someone’s going to tell me that I’ve been punked and no one is really publishing my book after all. But I guess Pretty is really coming out, because it’s now available for pre-order at Powell’s, Barnes and Noble and…

This Saturday is World Fair Trade Day. Fair trade basically just means that farmers and workers were justly compensated for the coffee in your espresso maker or the cotton in your shirt.

We’re getting in on the Wake up the World campaign by being more conscious about including fair trade products in our breakfast. Having a spirited kid, I drink coffee. Lots…

Read my new blog at TODAY Moms about why we don’t punish Tariku. Ever.

Weigh in with your comments if you feel moved. The discussion on the TODAY MomsFacebook page is pretty…

One of the gizmos in my snazzy new web design is a newsletter. I’m going to give away a copy of the audiobook of Some Girls, read by Tavia Gilbert. All you have to do to enter is sign up for the newsletter…

My soul sister Renee Reeser Zelnick designed this beautiful trailer for my upcoming memoir, SOME GIRLS: MY LIFE IN A HAREM. At first she turned me down, but then she was shopping in Target and the gods hit her in the head with this idea,…