10 Jun If life is a game, these are the rules.
We’ve been playing a family game of Monopoly. The game board sits in the middle of our kitchen table. After playing for a little while each evening, we tuck our...
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03 Jun Where to Begin
"What do you need from me?" the sheriff asked."Walk with us," the people replied.And he said, "Let's walk." Many years ago, Margaret Mead, the late anthropologist, was asked by a student...
27 May Cornelia
The other day, I clicked on a New York Times article detailing the nearly 100,000 lives lost to date in the U.S. from Covid. Names and memories were gathered from...
20 May Lending Hope
Emma has been reading Charlotte’s Web every night for weeks. She pulls it off her nightstand immediately after I kiss her goodnight. In the morning, I usually find it lying...
13 May Sing a Song
Now that the weather is warm, we are spending more of our quarantine time outside. The girls spent the morning swimming in the backyard while I worked on my laptop...
06 May What We Consume
This week, Emma’s at-home science lesson was about flamingos and how they become pink in color because of all the shrimp they eat. Emma liked this fact quite a bit...