I was searching for health and prayer stories and stumbled upon this one from Beliefnet. If you want to learn more about the real statistics on prayer, click here for the full article. Here is an excerpt:   News stories, midmorning talk shows, and celebrity figures such as Deepak Chopra claim that prayer can improve health. Biologists,…

It’s been three years since I published “The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World,” but the controversy over who is deemed a suitable mother and who’s not hasn’t change an iota.  A week or so ago when the story broke abut the Park Avenue lawyer who couldn’t take her kids’…

I found this interview with Ayelet Waldman on the amazon page of her book, “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.” Question: Why did you write this book? Ayelet Waldman: Do you want the snarky answer or the real one? Q:The real one… AW: Because so many women…

I guess Beliefnet has another bad mom onboard. I was happy to see that Catherine Connors has joined the flock of bloggers here on Beliefnet. I was especially moved by her recent post, “What Makes a Mother.” She writes:  For years – since my early childhood – my mother has recounted for me the story…

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