This month’s “Vanity Fair” features a long profile of TV personality Anderson Cooper and includes a photograph of CNN’s hottest correspondent working on the bed of a New Orleans hotel room with his portable computer resting on his outstretched thighs. Who would worry about this kind of working position as much as I do? Louis…

In her latest play “The Good Body,” “Vagina Monologue” playwright Eve Ensler lifts her shirt to reveal her own “flabby, post-40 stomach” to a grateful audience. In the June issue of “O,” on page 217, Ensler does the same thing. Her belly is soft, not Kate Moss’s, but it is not an unattractive thing. And…

Mother’s Day is not easy for those whose moms didn’t “deliver,” or for those whose moms are dead. Here’s a user-generated article from Beliefnet.com’s Mother’s Day package, helpful to those feeling distanced from the upcoming commemoration on Sunday. My own mother was wonderfully complicated. Sexy, funny, artistic…clank! Then unreasonable and remote. I had a dream…

I think you’ll like this essay by Katherine Ozment, a mom who reflects on the day her small son served as ring boy at a gay wedding. LiteraryMama.com, the online lit mag that published this piece, is always brimming with great mom stuff. I haven’t mentioned it before because you have to poke around the…

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