If you’re lucky, life affords you a few moments when you feel as if you are exactly where you are…
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parenting journey
The parenting road doesn’t end, it just changes, until you look back and marvel at the distances covered and the transformations that occurred along the way. Newborns turn into kids with skinned knees, adolescents become college students far from home, and one day a grown son pulls out his credit card and offers to buy you dinner. I wouldn’t have traded any of it, not even the sleepless nights. Writing is a way of remembering. Read more about my parenting journey, or browse the archive of stories below.
Thanksgiving
“Thanksgiving is really over,” my friend Patti wrote yesterday. “All that’s left are yams.” I know what she means. In…
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Dinner out
The year my mom turned sixty, my dad had the bright idea to whisk her off to a dental conference…
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Seventeen
My baby turned seventeen yesterday. Of course, he hasn’t been a baby for a very long time, and yet, because…
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A time for silence (and a tea recipe)
Before my son Henry flew back to Minnesota last week, I took him out shopping for vitamins. Last winter, temperatures…
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Halloween shopping
Every year since my younger son Jack was three or so, we have tried on Halloween masks together. It was…
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