I remember sitting with my son in the stands at a Major League Baseball game. A few rows in front of us, two men started heckling the leftfielder.…
When I was sixteen years old, our school board decided to fire our principal, Mr. Fedor. As students, we didn’t know the details of the firing, but we…
My husband and I are older parents. He is 61 and I am 47 and our daughter is 13. I am the age of most of her peers’…
I am a lot of work, he tells me. I am a lot of work. I am Schrodinger’s equation, Green’s functions, vector calculus. I am gradients that need…
It’s the Monday after vacation week, a nine-day blur of non-stop fun. We did it all; ice skating, snowman building, cookie baking, playdates, and excursions. And it worked…
As our nation’s youth attempts to find its collective voice in the midst of our unrelenting political turmoil, I am dismayed, as a teacher, as a mom, as…
Forgiveness is a dirty word. Or it is for me because somebody altered my life forever and I can’t forgive him. My mind wants to forgive him because…
I fell in love with and married a man who has six children. That’s right – his six plus my two make a family of ten, one loud…
This issue has been weighing on my mind since before I even became a military wife, back when I was “just” a girlfriend… a particular breed not even…
Today I am thinking about my husband’s upcoming birthday and how much fun we will have doing all the sundry activities I have planned. I am worrying about…