Samurai Momma (formerly Mom in Two Cultures)

Back in May, before I left all three kids home with Ren for 25 days, I promised each of them we’d do something special together once I got b...

The last time I really slept was more than a month ago. Most nights, like tonight, my brain spins with problems I need to but can't solv...

Today I laughed, I mean really laughed, for the first time in a long, long time. Sure, it was inappropriate and in reaction to Stow's mi...

Bedtime tonight looked a lot like the apocalypse as three children fought over who was in charge of picking up the Lego, who was in charge o...

When I was deep in it while far from home a couple of weeks ago, the only person I told was a friend thousands of miles away. "You need...

Pink wants to know if today is the day that I won't sleep on the couch for hours at a time. She asks how long it usually takes for jet l...

The other part of it, of course, is the anxiety. My anxiety is as old as my memory. When I was six, I insisted I go to bed at 6:45 pm EVERY....

Not long ago, I got back from trip to Japan where I participated in some exciting and hopefully life-changing work, but I also had a pretty ...

I'm in Tokyo, it's dawn and it's raining hallelujahs down the bright-lit neon canyons along the sidewalks of Shibuya I...