By Robin Gorman Newman I feel like a contestant in The Dating Game television show… only I’m participating on behalf of my father. And, it’s not for a love match, but rather a live-in aide… two to be exact. My mom passed away over ten years ago, and five years after that, we brought in a live-in [...]
We all want things to go well for our kids, and sometimes we push harder than we should in our efforts to make that happen. Michael’s mother gets a little too excited when her teenage son goes on his first date: her expectations are high as she drives the kids to and from their movie. [...]
My friend Janice Paran, who is the dramaturg on Motherhood Out Loud, got in touch with me to ask if I would like to write a monologue for the show. Janice described the show’s concept and told me that the cast would consist of three women and one man, and that they had one monologue [...]
About six years ago, I decided to try my hand at writing an essay for the Modern Love column of the New York Times. I wrote about my hope that my teenaged son would one day find romantic happiness and my fear that, because he was on the autistic spectrum, it might be a struggle for him. I [...]
When Susan Rose and Joan Stein first met with me about writing for Motherhood Out Loud, my son, Ivan was a Senior in High School. He has now graduated from college and he is in New York City playing the clubs with his band Sweet Fix. My husband Sam and I still attend almost every [...]