Monthly Archives: December 2014

Parenting Confession: Yes! I Help My Kids With Their Homework

Here’s a confession: I help my children with their homework.  Cue the collective GASP! from the audience.  Now, I’m going to circle back around to this obvious character flaw, but first I want to talk about the park. (It’s a metaphor.) I’m the parent at the park that people write…

Needing The Quiet To Remember The Noise. A Perspective Tale

There’s this thing that happens when I come home from a long trip, when I crawl into my own bed after spending days and days sleeping in a different bed. I forget that the bed is too small, I forget that it’s too high off the ground. I forget that…

Not The Worst Feels Pretty, Well, Not The Worst

So I watched a man not get eaten by an anaconda this weekend like he had originally promised. “Moooooooommmmm, you said you were going to buy me a new water bottle today and watch the end of that movie with me waaaaaaah and pack me an actual lunch instead of…