Part 1: Looking back. From arms full to hand free
Your new parenting job description
Last Christmas, and how to let go
You won't remember this later
The 'muscle memory' of motherhood, and what I learned at the mall
The truth about the empty nest
On parental pride (and those other feelings)
Regrets, I have (quite) a few
The new rules of the game: Developing a parenting philosophy when your kids aren't so little
Big kids, big problems, big fat worry
Part 2: What's ahead. All the mothers I'll never be
Beyond the coastal grandmother
The tyranny of the hot midlife mom
Our hormones, ourselves: The opportunity of perimenopause
Creativty: The new fertility
On chickens, children, and choosing caretaking
The grandmother hypothesis
The time we've had, the time we have
