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, … Continue reading How to knit a grown up
Parenting
More than enough
Sisters, many of us are all running around like crazy people today. It is very nearly Christmas and it is always, always the sisters who are making the world go around this time of year. I have one word I'm trying to keep in my head today - maybe you have problems with it, too? … Continue reading More than enough
The older mom
I am not sure exactly when it happened. But I have, for sure, become an Older Mom. I know this because I can recognize in myself the Older Moms from my early days on the job. They were, as I am now, 40- or 50-something, with children whose grown-up-sounding ages, when they mentioned them to … Continue reading The older mom