Parenthood

When I was the mother of a newborn, I thought she would never sleep. I thought that I would be tired forever, that I was the only mother who hadn't figured out how to make her baby sleep. Then miraculously...

It happened innocently. The little ones when they were much younger, would love watching poems and ABC videos on their tablets. Thinking they were learning themselves, it would be easy to let them be on the gadget for the...

To my daughter the night before kindergarten- Tomorrow, you are going to be great. 
I’m not saying this as an encouraging “I think you can.” I know you are going to have a great day. You have never walked in a...

Summer is here, and our thoughts and expectations go to what we long for summers to be: Sips of tea on a hot day— Sitting by the pool— Lingering in the evenings catching fireflies— Listening to thunderstorms roll through— Vacations— Good books to read— Summer concerts...

I have never valued a straightforward routine so much as when I became a mother. If you had asked me twenty years ago what I thought about the idea of my days being neatly laid out like the school clothes...

  When I became a new mom in 2008, I had only lived in my new house in a new town for about four months. I worked and had colleagues and mentors in my social circles, but none of them...

We talk a lot about kindness in our house. Before my son went to kindergarten this year, we spent August reading books with great professions of kindness like We’re All Wonders, The Invisible Boy, and Spork. We talked about...

I am currently preparing for reasonably major surgery.   As the main caregiver for my 6 and 3-year-old children, this has turned out to be harder than I expected. You know that saying, “You don’t know what you're missing until...

You know what they say about best-laid plans? Well, things did not go as planned this week. I had time set aside after packing for my business trip to put the final edits on a post for my blog...

At the end of the fall, one of the high schools called me. They had lost one of their AP physics teachers with less than 2 weeks until midterm exams. They asked if I would teach until Winter Break. Since...