Jan 4, 2024 | Musings, On Parenting
It’s been a year since ChatGPT splashed onto the national discussion. AI isn’t anything new, but the ability to interact with a chatbot and have it do your bidding in seconds IS new. Most people played with a little over Christmas break, a bunch of university students...
May 14, 2023 | On Parenting
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, then mothers are exactly as crazy as their kids think they are. From the moment the line turns pink on the pregnancy test, mothers operate at the highest levels of...
Oct 16, 2022 | Family Stories, On Parenting
We playfully called it our “Kill the Van” trip. We didn’t know how true that moniker would become. With two sons heading off to college in the fall, we spent all last spring planning an epic trip Out West, one last “fling” in our 12-passenger van. I researched,...
Nov 1, 2020 | Family Stories, Mothering Thoughts, On Parenting
The kids were all making Fourth Lunch or whatever the meal is they make when they get home from school. (Never mind that dinner is two hours away, nothing but an entire four-course meal will do at 3:30 in the afternoon.) I was rushing toward my espresso maker,...
Aug 16, 2020 | On Parenting
It was during bed rest with my 5th child that I developed a Pavlovian reaction to pill-taking. My round-the-clock medication kept the contractions at bay, but also turned me into a barge-sized space cadet, bloated and incapable of remembering which pills to take....
Dec 29, 2019 | On Parenting
As a parent, I like to think that I’m striving to give my kids opportunities. I want to expose them to new skills, let them explore, try, and find their thing. I pretend that’s my goal when we tell them they should sign up for an activity or buy the...
