There Can Never Be Too Much Delight
Marilee and I were driving to soccer practice the other day (alternating between the Taylor Swift Eras Tour setlist and The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder audiobook), when she said,…
Marilee and I were driving to soccer practice the other day (alternating between the Taylor Swift Eras Tour setlist and The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder audiobook), when she said,…
America is supposed to be a “melting pot” or a “salad bowl” in which lots of different types of people live together and intermingle. Still, many of us live within…
I hear the comparison all the time. When people want to explain that the unexpected can happen to any of us, and to any of our children, at any time,…
Is racism baked into our nation’s DNA? Is there any hope for change? John Blake, a CNN journalist and author of More Than I Imagined, explores the personal and social…
We need to go back to church. I feel like a little old lady wagging a scolding finger when I write that, and the last thing I want to do…
On Monday, we said goodbye to our home. It was always on loan to us. Our house comes with Peter’s position as a Head of School. In a few months,…
Who do you follow on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter? I follow a host of other writers, parents of kids with Down syndrome and other disabilities, social justice activists, and people of…
Free Resource 5 screen time practices for Families | Summer Edition When it comes to family use of technology, I want to nudge our family, and yours, towards creation and…
Today, people across the nation will celebrate Juneteenth—a holiday I only learned about in recent years. As Jemar Tisby writes, “Juneteenth may be the perfect holiday for Black people to…
Peter and I both remember the dinner where we admitted to each other that we weren’t sure we ever wanted kids. We liked our little family as it was, just…