02 Mar Larenty and the Lion
The photograph paused my scrolling through the news. A magnificent lion was on its back, its golden mane catching the light of the setting sun. The lion’s feet were up...
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23 Feb Try, Try Again
A new kind of escape room just opened near our house. There are six games, each with multiple levels. After entering a room, you have only two minutes to solve...
16 Feb The Enemy of the Good
Recently, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Dr. Nora Volkow, wrote an essay critiquing abstinence-only and relapse thinking in addiction treatment. The unhelpful assumption that abstinence is...
09 Feb Sparkles of Hope
When Emma was five, she liked to push her little fists gently into her closed eyelids until she could see silver-golden sparkles illuminating the darkness. When she opened her eyes,...
02 Feb Work, Love and Play
The L-shaped bookshelf next to my desk has rows and rows of books – academic ones, classics from college literature classes and a few tattered ones I have re-read hundreds...
26 Jan Operation
Over the winter break, the girls stayed busy playing various board games we’ve collected in the closet over the years. One day, they pulled out the classic game Operation. For those...