When I was a kid, I was bookish, loved classical music and ballet, and took life very, very seriously. My mother was funny, undisciplined, and marching to her own drum. While other mothers pushed piano lessons and extracurricular activities, my mother let me pick and quit activities whenever I wante ...

I am a planner. When I was pregnant with my girls, I read every book I could get my hands on about twin pregnancy and parenting so I could be ready for everything and anything. I tried to check all the boxes: what to do for a healthy pregnancy, no rhyming names so as not to compromise their identity ...

People often ask me whether I get scared while driving or riding in a car at the race track, and I usually say, “not really.”If I am doing the driving, there are very few times when adrenaline creeps in, usually when I am working on a faster lap and I commit to braking less or taking a corner fa ...