Back In the New York Groove
When Z and I made the decision to get married we also earnestly made plans for our future. We talked about what we wanted-kids someday, but not some day soon. To live in New York forever. I’d been...
View ArticlePost Paper Blues
Any of you guys do theater? Or used to do theater? You know the day after a show closes? The feeling of profound sadness and moodiness and emptiness and loss because it is over? I haven’t had that...
View ArticleWaiting For the Next Step
We know of a kid in a faraway town (no it isn’t your kid, I’m talking friend of a friend situation, someone who doesn’t know I blog) who has a certain developmental delay. Rather than simply focusing...
View ArticleTender
C is napping. And I am sitting here with tears running down my face. I think I just nursed him for the last time. My relationship with nursing has been deeply personal. Because I fell in love with...
View ArticleWednesday
Unplowed roads meant the boys didn’t go to school this morning. They both have colds. My throat started hurting by noon. Walked over a mile in a snowstorm to school. Classes were cancelled shortly...
View ArticleBoy In A Drawer
The boys ran up to T’s room and seemed to be occupying themselves without threat of imminent injury so Z and I took advantage, sipping our coffee and chatting in the family room. Z sat on the sofa, I...
View ArticleFlu
Tuesday morning I went to the doctor’s hoping I had caught strep from the boys. Why was I hoping for strep? It is treatable. I’d be back on my feet pretty quickly. Nope, not strep. Not an ear...
View ArticleI Checked My Privilege…It’s Pretty Staggering
You and I have a lot in common, Tal Fortgang. My parents also belonged to the first generation of college graduates in their families. My father worked hard and from humble beginnings went on to become...
View ArticleLast Days of School
A year ago I watched the mother of one of T’s classmates struggle with the reality that her child was leaving the comfort of our extraordinary preschool and moving on to kindergarten. The transition...
View ArticleWho Is the Real Butthead?
“I offered him a Hershey’s Kiss and he said he couldn’t have one because he lost his treat.” my friend J told me. “Man, I love that T is incapable of lying.” “I asked him why he lost his treat and he...
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