Take Your Child To Work…Every Day
Yesterday was “Take Your Child to Work” day. The annual late-April event surprised me, because in the context of COVID-19, I feel like I...
Take Your Child To Work…Every Day
Yesterday was “Take Your Child to Work” day. The annual late-April event surprised me, because in the context of COVID-19, I feel like I...
Evil to Colorado: You Still Can't Catch Me
Last year in this space I wrote about the effect that school shootings have had on all of us. This morning, before I was even fully...
Leveling an Uphill Climb
At Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, many of the women in Congress wore white as a nod to the U.S. suffragists and an attempt...
Staying Occupied
When I started my extended leave adventure a year and a half ago, my husband continued to ask me, “Will you be fulfilled?” I asked myself...
Uniting Maverick
With the passing of John McCain, the American national conversation has lost an important voice. At a time when nearly any statement of...
Structured Freedom to Play
Summer has officially begun. With it comes an annual dilemma that plagues every parent of a school-aged child: What can I do to occupy my...
Powerful Stories
In the last few days, my children have completely amazed me on at least two memorable instances. The first was as we were sitting in the...
Evil to the U.S.: You Can’t Catch Me
Yesterday’s events in Florida brought to the forefront of our minds, once again, the issue of gun violence in schools. My heart breaks...
Fighting the Erosion of Trust in Cyberspace
The 2017 Netflix miniseries, Godless, opens with a detailed look at the havoc that Frank Griffin and his gang of outlaws wreaked on the...