It is Friday of the first “week” of school, if one can call it that after only two days of…
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Kids
Tracing the pattern of our hands
I can’t open up a blog page or Facebook without feeling the mothers, whose children returned to school already, mocking…
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Surrender
We sat in the waiting room surrounded by other kids and their parents, all wearing the same look of apprehension….
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Historians
The house is quiet. I woke up and lay in bed alone for an hour thinking my thoughts. When I…
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Rubies: on parenting older kids
My little one went to the Farmer’s market with the neighbors and a few bucks in her pocket. She picked…
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Parenting for the faint of heart
Friends came over for dinner last week, and we sat around the table and told war stories from this past…
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