Hannah’s actions and decisions make me sad sometimes. For long stretches I wonder how she’ll ever make it in the world. But she is also the person through whom I have had the opportunity to know true awe and pride. (You might not know that Hannah fought and won a complicated lawsuit against the Nassau County ...
Ed Note: As I was writing this piece, my daughter knocked on the door. She walked in, sniffed the air and said “something smells amazing-banana bread?” (it was two loaves of banana pumpkin.) Then she said “I bake all the time now! I don’t know why!” I showed her this piece, and said “this ...
While the walls close in around her and me, and I'm thinking “R2! Shut down ALL the trash compactors on the detention level!!” I'm also thinking “holy shit!” Because even with the virtual school classes she failed and even with the bullshittery she feeds the teachers and the counselors and even with all the ...
I have this great blue checked apron that belonged to my grandmother, and I keep planning to put it on with some red lipstick and start having drinks every afternoon at like 4:30 with lots of ice...rattle the ice around in the glass, walk around the kitchen in high heels while I cook dinner, maybe ...
This is me trying to be funny about something that's the least funny thing that has ever happened: my realization that nothing I have ever believed about parenting is true, and that quite possibly every piece of advice I have ever given about parenting is wrong. And I've given a lot of it, because of ...