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At Home in the Moments Jun. 11, 2023
I may have watched the first death of my daughter's childhood. It all happened as she patiently wait... Read More
Maintaining Adulthood is About Choosing Your Battles May. 28, 2023
It's reaching the end of the school year crescendo with things being brought home from their classro... Read More
If You Like Your Job, Check This Box. (Also, Your Brain.) May. 25, 2023
You'll never believe it! According to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,148 workers ages 18 to 64, ... Read More
Dear Graduates: Here's What No One Tells You May. 20, 2023
To this year's graduating classes, shaking hands with deans and principals, crying with friends you ... Read More
The Joy in the Impermanence of Things May. 14, 2023
There's a house I drive by every morning when I drop off the kids that is full of knickknacks. I kno... Read More
This One Time, at a Yearbook Conference May. 07, 2023
We had barely settled into our rooms for our high school trip to San Francisco when the fire alarms ... Read More
Requiem for Bed Bath & Beyond May. 06, 2023
Goodbye to Bed Bath & Beyond. Goodbye to yet another American corporate comfort that just couldn't h... Read More
When Your Boss Doesn't Trust You, Trust Me. May. 04, 2023
Who's that peeking around the corner? Who's that peeping over the cubicle wall? It could be nobody. ... Read More
Fake Money, Real Lessons in Power Apr. 30, 2023
One year in elementary school, our teacher tried to prop up a unit on financial education by buildin... Read More
Why It's So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens Apr. 27, 2023
"How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just... Read More
Alone We Are a Drop; Together We Are a Wave Apr. 23, 2023
It was her furry escape artist who caused the commotion after jumping the fence, but his shenanigans... Read More
If We Forget Our Past, What Is the Foundation of Our Future? Apr. 16, 2023
I'm not one to gasp when something dramatic happens, but when I rounded the corner and saw the bulld... Read More
Are You There, God? 'Margaret' Is Right on Time Amid Book Bans Apr. 15, 2023
Spouting spoilers when it comes to "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" is a minor sin at most, gi... Read More
We Are Not the Ones to Define Our Times but Live Them Apr. 09, 2023
Good game, COVID-19. After three years of dodging and deflecting, the little extra line on the at-ho... Read More
Let Swifties Have Their Joy! Apr. 08, 2023
They say comparison is the thief of joy, but you know what else is a thief of joy? Thieves of joy! J... Read More
ChatGPT Pickup Lines to Land Your Next Date Apr. 01, 2023
It has come to my attention that people are using artificial intelligence bot service ChatGPT to wri... Read More
Hope for Facing an Unknown Future Mar. 19, 2023
Every millennial has a story about the disconnect between their lives and the suggestions from their... Read More
Developing Ourselves and Our Communities Takes Time Mar. 12, 2023
It was a graduation for a community class that had been running once a week for the last few months.... Read More
On Parenting: These 7 Things I Know for Sure Mar. 10, 2023
I am by no means a perfect parent, but I have three kids ages 27, 22 and 7 years old. I swear the yo... Read More
Keep Playing the Game with the Cards You Have Mar. 05, 2023
As we poured the bingo balls from our hands into the small cage, some would immediately find the hol... Read More
