Laura Norkin

He sets up shop in his ex-wife's living room surrounded by "brilliant women," and nary a child or toy in sight. Succession has returned, which means life has meaning again. And there's so much meaning to discuss — why is Roman's repartee so annoying…

On October 10, 2020, NBC News Senior Washington Correspondent Hallie Jackson shared a photo of herself in a news van coming from Walter Reed Medical center, where she had been covering then-President Donald Trump's COVID treatment. "Me, my Spectra,…

I was sitting in an aisle seat, nearly home on a night flight to New York, when we started shaking. Then the rattling became more of a swoopy bounce. A flight attendant, who had been speed-walking toward her seat at the front of the plane knelt down…

“It’s essentially a Netflix for notes,” Kevin Wu says of the online platform he and three friends launched in 2011, fresh out of college themselves. OneClass is both an all-access pass to notes for college classes, and an easy way for students to…

This is the only “bump” picture I have left. The rest were erased, in a purge that I thought would help me heal. I think sharing my story will help, too, and not just me. I want to shed some light around a “choice” I hope you continue to have the…

Several smart women have said that the personal is political, and there’s hardly an act more political than that of choosing to become a parent. First of all, you are building a future voter from scratch, so that’s great for democracy. Secondly, you…

Royal worshippers the world over awoke this morning to pictures of Princess Eugenie’s wedding day: the unexpected celebrity guests (oh, hi Kate and Lila Moss), the dress with a heartwarming secret meaning, and the coat Meghan Markle refused to take…

Why, oh why, aren’t we talking about our miscarriages? Every October, for Pregnancy Loss Awareness month, articles like this one keep asking us this question, but we must be — these articles are an Ouroboros of talking about miscarriage. And we're…

This is a modal window. An unanticipated problem was encountered, check back soon and try again “It’s a wonderful thing, and it’s a weird thing, and it’s a scary thing,” says Southern Charm’s Cameran Eubanks in a new video about motherhood for…

Kay Kremer was in a therapy session for perinatal depression when she felt her baby stop moving. She was 32 weeks pregnant, far enough along that a fetus usually makes its presence known through near constant jabs and wiggles, even pelvic pressure…

Though it is literally nobody's business whether Khloé Kardashian is breastfeeding her daughter, True Thompson, the reality star put any speculation about her methods to rest by opening up on the realities of being a new mom. "Because I don’t produce…

Collage: Stevie Remsberg NEW MOM explores the brilliant, terrible, wonderful, confusing realities of first-time motherhood. It’s for anybody who wants to be a new mom, is a new mom, was a new mom, or wants really good reasons to never be a new…

photographed by Rockie Nolan. Why do stock images of working moms look so frazzled, while stock images of working dads just look like...guys at work? In a new interview with the Longest Shortest Time podcast as part of its “It’s A Real Mother” series…

Photo courtesy of TLC / Nicole Sun Photography. Liz the day of her C-section. Liz Hodges is the mom at the center of TLC’s forthcoming reality series Hodges Half Dozen. This is her story about giving birth to five — five! — babies in one go. Like any…

Photo: Rex Features. Acting Gov. Jane Swift goes over her notes before addressing the people of Massachusetts from the Statehouse in Boston, October 2, 2001. Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift’s political career began when she was young — just 25…

Photo: Getty Images. Think of the words “mommy and me fitness,” and now picture the person likely saying them. Crumple that up and throw it away. Now, picture someone whose favorite exercise is remembering decades-old Chris Farley quotes and laughing…

I’m staring at my 2-year-old daughter through a night-vision monitor. I pan the camera side to side until the screen images her midsection, and zoom in to be sure I see it rise and fall beneath her tight-fit dinosaur pajamas. Sometimes, I still sneak…

Ari Joseph answers the door of his Brooklyn apartment with 7-week-old Selma strapped into a nursery-gray Boba baby carrier. All that's visible of the infant is a shock of black hair against her father’s chest, where curls the same color tuft out of…