This year, for the first time, my family decided to observe advent at home. With nowhere—and I literally mean nowhere—to be for the entire month of December, it seemed like it would be a great way to make the Christmas season more meaningful. My family has chosen to continue social distancing over the holidays, which…Read More
Writing The Lost Library
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? What challenge would you face? What skill would you learn? What unknown would you step into? In the spring of 2019, I stared head on at these questions—and then I looked away. In April of that year, I had begun reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron….Read More
I Would Be
Tonight I stood on the street corner down the road from my house with a small group of people, holding a sign that read Black Lives Matter. These past few months of quarantine, my preschool-age son and I have walked through that intersection multiple times a week on the way to the park or to…Read More
Raising Safe Sons
It’s Friday morning, and next to me my two-year-old son plays with dinosaurs, their roamings stretching across the carpeted landscape. The plastic figures occasionally stop their treks to inspect a stale, discarded Cheerio or to quickly scatter with an “I need to go potty!” urgency, but for the most part my son’s play is contained…Read More