The Sum of Childhood
This day is a luxury. For me and for my kids. To wish to go back to when my kids were little now would be like giving up a winning lottery ticket and the Oscar for Best Actress and the World Cup wrapped in one.
The Most Insignificant Significant Childhood Milestone
Today is the day my son enrolled in college, which is weird, because I swear it was just last Tuesday that he was racing Hot Wheels cars across the kitchen floor.
You Can’t “Choose to Be Happy”
You can’t “choose to be happy” any more than you can choose to be tall. There isn’t a dial on our hearts that we can set to “happy” just because our brains want us to.
Bring Your Son’s Ukulele to Work Day
The older child made a request: Please bring me my ukulele. And a coffee maker. And coffee. The ukulele, I could see. When one is spending the month at a precollege program, sleeping in the dorms and sitting in class all day, a young man needs his ukulele. Of course. But the coffee maker? In […]
Two Words Never to Say to Someone Who’s Upset
“Calm down” doesn’t calm anyone down. It dismisses their feelings and concerns.
Do Your Shoes Fit Your Motherhood?
For moms, the sensible shoe years are really quite short. Yet we keep them thinking that’s who we are.
We’re Gonna Have Fun, Dammit!
So we go about the business of making memories, Instagramming and Facebooking them along the way as proof that we are excellent modern parents.
