20 Real-Life Answers to My Son’s Driver’s Ed Homework
16. If your car breaks down on any road, the first thing you should do is: post it on Facebook. For the sympathy and amateur car repair advice.
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
My niece left for college this morning. I don’t know how that happened, considering that just yesterday, she was seven, and carrying her dolly around the supermarket next to me, while her cousins — my sons, then 5 and 6 — fought over who got to put things in my shopping cart. Aisle after aisle. Then […]
Parenting with Expensive Lessons, Not Excessive Nagging
This is a story about a boy and a car and two bald tires, one with a hole in it. The boy knew he shouldn’t do that to his tires, but he did it anyway, because he was young and he had a new (used) car and he was the first among his friends to […]
The Gift of Untogetherness
Parenting teens in the summer is like having cats: Just put out some food and maybe they’ll show up.
You Beautiful Toy Car Display in the Pancake Mix Aisle
There you are making my life easier back when my boys were little and the summer days were long, and I just needed to get through another dripping hot day and buy some pancake mix without a meltdown or a scene.
The Work-on-the-Go Mom
Since my kids were little, I have been a stay-at-home mom and a work-at-home mom, but now I am a sometimes-commutes-to-New York City-mom.
