There’s only one problem with paradise: it reminds you how unattainable it is. The excitement builds for weeks, with the kids coming in to our room each morning to ask, “Are we going to see Grammie and Granddad today?” Finally, we get up in the middle of the night, load the mini-van, curb-check the car […]
Mom, the one who fixed things, made sandwiches, and put the house back together when we wrecked it, needed me and I couldn’t help her. When I was growing up, my parents’ marriage was pretty traditional. Yet today, my brothers and I all cook and help out around our houses. I also do all the […]
Despite eight years of progress, the racist, sexist America that I grew up in wasn’t actually gone, it was just waiting in the wings. Like many parents, my first thought after learning Donald Trump was going to be president was what I’d tell my kids the next day. My 8-year-old daughter was a big Hillary […]
