Here's Newsweek's article, "More women are having fewer children, if at all," with my comments in brackets: More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday. [Yay, us!] In...
My favorite part of Lorraine Ali's Newsweek article (July 14, 2008) about the effects of children on happiness is this: In Daniel Gilbert's 2006 book "Stumbling on Happiness," the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital...
In case anyone has ever wondered, "What did Regina's mother look like at age 41?" here's a photo to help you out. I took this picture of myself yesterday because I realized that I have now become my mother: it's the hair, the mouth, the expression, the shade of...
I attended a wedding last June and today I received word of the bride's pregnancy. I stared at a jpeg of the ultrasound in shock. I was surprised at how soon she got pregnant, but I also just felt baffled at the universal, almost without exception, desire of people to...
The Newsweek article "When Does Autism Start?" makes me think about my family. My sister Judy has an almost nine-year-old daughter named Julia. Julia is mentally retarded and autistic. I think she can speak in sentences, or at least fragments, but it’s not always easy...