What Are Your Kids Putting in Their Eyes?
You can’t unsee what you’ve seen, and other people’s real life horror is not something to carry with you through life.
I Work from Home. And the Bus, the Train, Starbucks…
Only in recent years did “work from home” come to mean that I work from everywhere I go
The 3 Things On Every College Tour — and the One That Matters
There are three things you will see on every college tour, and two of them are pretty much the same. One matters the most.
Creative Writing for the Mathy Scientist
I was surprised when my son invited me to the creative writing class presentation. This from a kid who, over the years, has stood in my home office surrounded by boxes of my books and declared, “Mom, I don’t know how you can be a writer. I hate writing.”
Two Words Never to Say to Someone Who’s Upset
“Calm down” doesn’t calm anyone down. It dismisses their feelings and concerns.
MommaSaid Field Trip: Seattle by Microsoft
What I learned, loved, and ate at the Microsoft #ChampionsSummit brand ambassador trip.
Mother’s Day Status Updates You Secretly Wished For
Spent a half-hour explaining to my mom how to find “The Google” on my her iPhone while my sister finished off the last of the potato salad and beer.
