Out of my Depth
My daughter is going through something right now. She has been for about a month. It’s been really, really hard. I never know if what we’re dealing ...
Category: Parenting & Family
Changing the Way I Parent
I read two books in the past several months that have totally changed the way I parent. I won’t say parenting is necessarily easier or more enjoyable now,...
An Interlude
I’m not going to deny that Wednesday was one of the harder days I’ve experienced. I felt so ill, and I had two little people who felt just as bad, t...
Culmination
My daughter took a test with San Francisco Unified School District this weekend to determine her bilingual status. She passed! Those two words don’t do th...
Busted Lady Business
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to talk about… my busted lady business! Oh yes, you read that, right. This is a post about my vag. I donR...
Inevitable Failure
I have been entertaining a terrifying thought of late: What if I can’t be the person, or parent, I expect myself to be? What if it is simply, and inexorab...
The Bill Has Come Due
{More on loneliness to come next week. Thank you all for your insightful comments on those posts.} It feels sometimes like the stakes are higher since I had kid...
Is this what the future looks like?
Twice this week my daughter has asked for something and when I informed her that I didn’t know where that particular thing was, she told me it was fine. T...
The Revelation
So a funny thing happened the other day: I realized I didn’t want anymore kids. This might not seem like an Earth shattering revelation to some–espe...