A letter to another mother at the water park: It was hot today–a balmy 90 degree day, the sun high and strong in the sky. To escape the heat of the afternoon, my husband and I took our kids to a small water park. This one has a green frog with big pink eyes, water …
On our walk last night, we stopped in at our friends’ home. We live in the sort of small town where people still visit after dinner on front porches, back yards, and sidewalks. It’s what I love about living here—the casual, impromptu meetings, the gathering of friends to make sense of our days. After chatting …
My almost six-year-old son is currently obsessed with Star Wars and Harry Potter. I know he’s young, but the movies and books bring up topics for us to sort through all the time—tough topics. I take these opportunities to have the hard talks together. We read the books together; we watch the movies together. We’ve …
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This post from April appeared today on Women for One. I recently read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez with my senior English class. We, of course, were reading and discussing the short story as the great example of Magic Realism, but at the center of the story …