Forgive Me Martha

After the birth of author Becky M. Pourchot’s twins, life slipped into chaos.

The family was eating take-out four times a week, the house smelled of dirty diapers, and an infestation of moths descended on the kitchen like a team of unfed sumo wrestlers.

She did what she could, but in her mind it was never enough. Rather than crumple under the unreachable demands of her new life Pourchot began a blog, confessing all of her hilarious shortcomings to Martha Stewart the “Great Goddess of Domest...