Role Reboot

The Time For Thoughts And Prayers Is Over

Gun violence is preventable. After every mass shooting — and there are many — an outpouring of thoughts and prayers makes the rounds on social media. But for many parents, the time for thoughts and prayers has come and gone. Fifty-nine people died and hundreds more were injured during Sunday night’s shooting in Las Vegas. And […]

On Trying To Teach My Child That The World Is Only Half Terrible

The past year has been particularly brutal for parents, a year of dead children. The world is at least/ fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative/estimate, though I keep this from my children./For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird./For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,/ sunk in a lake.—Maggie Smith, […]