Articles by Laurie Sontag

About Laurie Sontag
Laurie Sontag is a Gilroy writer who wishes parenthood had come with an instruction manual.

A mom’s farewell

In June 2001, I wrote my first column for this paper. I started writing because I had become a parent and for the first time in my life I had become intimately acquainted with midnight barf-a-thons. There was also this strange, tiny person in the house who told me “no” all [...]