Look, I love momblogs. And I love celebrity gossip. But sometimes, when the two cross paths, you get things like this—“13 Celebs Who Should Get Pregnant — RIGHT NOW”: With Mother’s Day approaching, we can think of more than a few famous moms who we wish had reconsidered procreation. Alas, all we can do now …
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Over drinks recently, a friend of mine told me his girlfriend was pregnant, and that he’s got a boy on the way in October. Huzzah! Actually, it took me a second to react to his news, partly because I was asking myself a question: Should I give him the same “Get ready for fatherhood” book …
Conventional wisdom has it that the first year of a baby’s life is the hardest (on the parents, that is): You get no sleep, you fret over every possible sign of ill health, and if it’s your first kid anyway, you have no idea what you’re doing. But lately, I’ve begun to doubt that thinking. …
“The Unnamed,” the relatively new novel by Joshua Ferris, the acclaimed author of “Then We Came to the End,” was pretty much written specifically for me. It’s about Tim Farnsworth, a well-paid lawyer who works in Manhattan, lives happily in New Jersey with his wife and daughter, and is cursed with a disease that compels …
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