These days people are much more politically correct than they used to be. It’s publicly frowned upon to say or do anything overtly racist or sexist. This is a good thing. The downside is that our prejudices (and others’ ) tend to be a lot more subtle and harder to detect. I include myself in…
Someday
It is impossible to follow all the parenting advice we get from the moment we announce that we plan to join The Club. The toughest? “Enjoy every moment.” There is a part of you that knows this advice comes from a place of nostalgia, from a parent who has forgotten all the miserable, tear-your-hair-out moments that…
What Not to Say
Someday my friend and I are going to write a book. We’ve had the title ready for a long time. It’s going to be called What Not to Say: How to Avoid Being a Well-Meaning Idiot. Now we’re in the data-gathering stage. You know what the most useful tool has been for collecting it? Comments…
Inferior
When he sat down at the new piano and began playing – a lovely improvised piece that somewhat resembled Pachelbel’s Canon – I fought back the tears, swallowed my pride for the millionth time, and smiled back when finished. Having our own piano had been a dream of ours since we were engaged, lazily imagining…
The Giver
My rating: 5/5 stars What would it be like if we could eliminate confusion, chaos, unpredictability, hunger, and even enormous snowstorms? It would be like the world in Lois Lowry’s amazing book The Giver. I like to skip around in my Newbery list every so often because sometimes I get bogged down with the older…
