I’m a parent. I’m supposed to be teaching my kids, guiding them, yet I’m continually humbled by how much I learn from them whenever I stop to watch and listen. Recently we took a trip to the local science museum–because science is real, and fun, and interesting, and because my kids always do better in…
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Strangers in a Strange Land
I used to write about the ups and downs of life abroad. I used to write pithy posts about parenting. I used to write salty observations of marriage and life and love and all the stuff that falls between the cracks like so much cheese doodle dust. Now I seem only to write about events…
Throwing Punches: Why Kids Sometimes Need to Fight Back
Years ago my husband told me a story about the one fist-fight he got into on the schoolyard asphalt. There were insults and threats and while not quite pistols at dawn, an assignation by the lockers at 3–or something to that effect. My husband is a big man, in stature as well as heart, but despite his…
Let’s Make America Great Again
Let’s make America great again. Watching the circus unfold from afar, I keep hearing this phrase bandied about. I keep seeing it on hats and homemade signs. I keep reading about in relationship to Donald Trump’s campaign. And I keep asking myself…to what time are we harkening back toward here? Remind me when the again in great…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 