I’ve always said that my marriage would never survive co-working with my husband. Every time I say this, the people around me laugh. Since my husband is a…
I’ve always considered Valentine’s Day to be among the worst of the Hallmark Holidays. After all, nothing says love like a box of cheap chocolates and some flowers…
I’m watching my seventh-grade son navigate digital learning. Not like it was at the end of the last school year, when the Los Angeles Unified School District (abruptly)…
Something that really became clear to me this week is that we need to exercise some more self-compassion. I keep hearing people talk about the guilt they have…
If you really want to chat about a worthwhile debate, then come sit by me. Families, like mine, all over the country are counting down to Decision Day. …
I can no longer be silent. When your actions and your words have a negative impact on my family, children of this country, and every community. I tried…
My grandmother’s sister died at the age of 10 from diphtheria. The loss devastated her. So when my mother, her fourth child started showing signs of the strangling…
Walking to the end of the driveway, to get the Sunday Post, I would read “Hands Across America Cancelled” and just above it, a headline that warned of…
The other night I listened intently as a college president suggested to his listeners that students could build meaningful connections via Zoom. I’m skeptical. How many 18 to…
This was to be your swan song year. The year you finally were to strut around the school and go to the seniors’ lounge, wearing the graduation hoodie…