The holidays are over now, for real. Every young adult iteration of Christmas break—from the all-too-brief workaday kind to the endless weeks-on-end college kind—has ended. The “big kids” are gone. They have returned now to their parallel universes: their schools, jobs, and lives in townhouses, apartments, and smaller apartments where they live, places that, I … Continue reading How to knit a grown up
Month: December 2017
I can’t even
I hate to mention this, Moms of the World, though it is a truth that you already know. Christmas is drawing near. We are all running out of time. And because we are moms, and there is always so much around the holidays—even if our shopping is done and our wrapping is complete, even if … Continue reading I can’t even
Being Santa
I have lost my job. I only just realized this today. It happened so gradually that I didn't even notice the signs, though clearly I should have. Like many who work in the same position for a long time, I'd become good at it, and I took a lot of pride in the work I … Continue reading Being Santa
Becoming Real
The Velveteen Rabbit has never sounded quite the same to me since breast cancer. I always found Margery Williams’ classic tale to be a somewhat dark and tragic and not at all Christmas-y story, what with the incidence and management of scarlet fever, and the burning of the child’s toys and all. But my kids … Continue reading Becoming Real
Opening doors
Advent, the season of watchful waiting, begins today. Not in the official, liturgical, grown up kind of way, which I think must start this coming Sunday, but in the other, childish kind of way. The one that commences December 1st and that begins with that first little, colorful, and numbered cardboard door opening the way … Continue reading Opening doors
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