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You don't look like you want to die. You look great. I love that photo. 
And the essay! The essay rocks.
great photo and an even great article!! I love your stuff, write more please!
You rock Flea!
Loved the article and the photo! I second Morrigan....more please!
hey flea,great article. But cdnt find the pic
What frog said!
Wonderful article! The picture of you and your boys is adorable.
That's an awesome picture of you! I'm not really in the Expository Magazine demographic, but be sure to let us know here whenever new columns come out; your writing is so much fun to read.
The best parenting line I ever heard from my dad was "Don't make me come back there!". This is his reaction to me and my brother annoying each other in the back seat of the car while traveling 75mph down the road. Typical brother stuff except my brother is soon to be 21 and I'm over 30. My brother and I looked at each other and busted out laughing because we knew our father wasn't going to pull the car over and we decided to call him on it.
!!! is that The Putrid Couch in the background of your picture? =)
excellent article, by the way! =)
Leigh Ann, you don't look like Aida Turturro
I thought that too when I saw the picture! First: "Cute kids, just like I pictured them," then thought #2 "Leah Anne looks - WHOA! Is that THE Putrid Couch of lore?" I knew it would be in plaid. Just knew it.
Great article. Spot on about Dr. Phil too.
Thank you, everybody! And YES, that is the Putrid Couch.
The photo of me can be found in my complete bio, which is located under the "team" file. My bio is dead last, and click on "More" to see the photo.
you and your kids are so cute! grear article, too.
It's a good pic! Your boys look like cherubs! How could they ever be bad?!? And you look zippy, not at all like it's 3 in the morning. Love the article, too, btw.
It is a supreme honor to have Leigh Anne writing for EM. As she knows by now, I adore her and her writing (it's not a subtle thing). Heh.
Thank you, Leigh Anne, for a marvelous start on what I know will be an extremely popular column -- and not just because people love you, but also because there are more mothers with your own sensibilities than you might feel, some days.
Hurrah! Yay EM! Yay Flea!
I was very happy to see the legendary Putrid Couch too, as well as a picture of you where you weren't facing away from the camera and holding a foil
So, the prebaby boobs are gone forever? Crap. What I have now hurts, but I'd like the orginal size and consistency returned to me at some point. Guess I'd better start squirreling away my pin money for a plastic surgeon
Your article is spot on about the motherhood box. Very insightful.
I completely agree about the damned if you do, damned if you don't. I think it's almost like all the conundrums women face, mothers or not-- obsess over your looks, then be denigrated for it! obsess over baby, then be denigrated for it!
I have kind of a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy with friends. If they don't ask about the baby, I don't bring him up.
Sometimes I think the obsessive mom stereotype I fear is a myth, though I know some women strive to be it. And even though I know I still have other interests, it always bugs me that I have to be defensive and hide that baby fanatic side of me, like it's the stupid side or something. Like my friends obsessions are so much more superior. I guess cuz it's mom related, its just boring. But yeah, then my friends complain that I don't send pictures. can't win.
A scrumptuous article, as usual, flea!
But I was very disappointed by the picture of you, because I have always thought of you as a flea, like the ones in a flea circus, and I didn't even realize I was doing this until I saw the picture, and my first thought was that the boys are cute but far too big for a flea!
that's okay. I really do see you as a snake. A green garden snake, with a gold pointed crown on its head.
Loved the article and the boys are beautiful. You look to young to be their mom.
I'm actually violet colored, but otherwise you got me right!
Snakey
Great article! Great photo! My new mantra: More Flea, please!
"Admissions of wanting the kids to go to bed so they can watch Scarface on DVD are just that, guilty admissions."
Hehehe. This is my favorite line of the whole article. It's so true! When my youngest son was very little we'd watch things like The Sopranos with him in the room & not think twice. Once Andrew turned, oh, maybe about 3 we realized that hearing that kind of language probably wasn't the best way to increase our son's vocabulary. Plus he understood the plotlines more than I did. So now I have to stay up until 11 on Sundays to watch The Sopranos.
Or, God forbid, a dirty movie .. we have to cloak it in secrecy & have Andrew stay overnight at his grandparents'.
Silly, isn't it? But I love it.
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