8. Parenting

Time, on a Sunday afternoon

This is a piece I wrote in 2017 that I recently rediscovered as I was decluttering my online cupboard. It’s weird how your life can change in five years. My kids are

Cookies 'n Cream

Early summer 2021. The grocery store. Oh look. Cookies and cream ice cream on special. My kids love cookies and cream ice cream. Bring a tub home. Look kids, I’m not just

How this pandemic affects mothers

Hey, moms. Can you hear me over the incessant din inside your head?  I see you. Man, do I ever.  Here you are, having abruptly begun your homeschooling career in March, while struggling

Would you call the cops on this kid?

It had to happen sooner or later. That’s why I’d prepared my kids for that possibility, by explaining that adults were so unused to seeing kids allowed to be competent by