Do you sometimes think about the grown-ups who existed in the periphery of your childhood and wonder who they would be if you met them adult to adult? I often remember them through their children: the kid whose parents were on-again-off-again, the kid whose parents were in an open relationship, the black kid adopted into […]
Category: Family Life
Blog posts about parenting and family life
Daily blog: Change, Change, Change Part 2
I started this blog post yesterday by sharing a condensed version of our move to and from the country. A friend asked me to write about change and it may be trite to say that change is the only constant in life but when we see how much energy people expand to fight or avoid […]
Daily Blog: Change, Change, Change, Part 1
I’m continuing down the list of suggested topics my friends sent me on Facebook. One friend asked me to write about change and another one didn’t know we had moved (thank you Facebook algorithm for being weird, I’ve been yapping about nothing else for 6 months it seems… or maybe she just muted me… who […]
Daily blog: Knitting and baking.
I put a Facebook request for a blog topic and within the requested 5 minutes I received two suggestions: knitting and baking. I not a good enough knitter to write something useful about knitting (like tips and tricks or maybe a made-from-scratch pattern?) but I can certainly share what I’ve been up to. As for […]
Daily Blog: What’s not on your resume?
I have been looking for work lately. We moved back to the city last May, my children are all in school and my husband is working from home. Sounds like as good a time as any to finally launch into a career. I’m 45 but I don’t feel it. Maybe that’s why not finding […]
Daily Blog: Making friends while adulting
I was listening to this episode of the Gretchen Ruben podcast and got a little hung-up on the “why you should have people over” part. I’M TRYING GRETCHEN!! I grew up in a family where my parents’ friends were like family. My mother’s family was in France and my father’s family was in Chicoutimi, a […]
Daily Blog: Kids, phones and social media first principles
Finding balance when it comes to children and technology is a tricky thing. With our older children, we tended to be on the limiting side of things. Those were the years when children and teenagers were transitioning out of using regular phones and email to communicate and into using texting apps. In our old-goaty ways, […]
Book review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(In which I review “The God of Small Things” and tell you what you should read instead.) (A short reading note: I read up to chapter 7, then — thoroughly confused — re-read chapters 1 and 2. It renewed my interest in the characters and clarified some plot lines I had lost.) The God of […]
Dance Fitness Workout Playlist
Do you remember the days when we would make mixed-tapes from the radio, recording our favorite songs as they came-up and sharing them with each other? Well, I think that the playlist is as good a love language as the mixed-tape ever was. In fact, the cool kids like Hamilton still call it mixtapes — […]
School, on the first day
All your back-to-school pictures are awesome and one day my children will hate me for not having a single one of them. School started on the first day and the a/c broke in the middle of a heat wave so we went to the beach. A heroic HVAC repairman shot the trouble for about an […]