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As a parent with one daughter in college and one applying soon, I can appreciate what Today Show contributor Amy McCready means when she says that she dropped off her oldest child at college and “gracefully exited a life” that she would now “dearly love to tag along on.” “There are days,” she says, “I’d do just…

The artist Sarah Walker once told me that becoming a mother is like discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live. I always liked Walker’s description because it’s more precise than the shorthand most people use for life with a newborn: Everything changes. Because a lot of things do change, of…