There’s this point in Odysseus’ quest when he lands on a shore the farthest point from home: the Underworld. Odysseus takes his sword and very, very carefully digs a…
Tag: <span>parenting</span>
“The days are long, but the years are short.” This is the kind of anonymous quotery that gets stuck in my maternal craw, and no matter how I hack at…
I still have five point harness car seats in my life. This is how I console myself when my three-year-old who wears five-year-old clothing crawls into my arms, and I…
Hope is often unhappy. Like the hope that surfaced at my bedside at 4:30 am. It was a choral hope in the form of two pajamaed bodies singing in unison,…
To get my girl to glow, give her a compliment, in front of other people, and go overboard with the gushing praise. This may also get my introvert girl to…
There’s nothing that requires patience quite like a kid four-years-old or under with shoelaces. Is it only my kid who insists on wearing her running shoes everywhere for every occasion…