Learning to Hold One’s Breath and Other Uncomfortable Things
Toddlers to Teens August 19, 2019
The house temperature at 4am. Attempts to keep quiet after stepping hard on the blunt, plastic head of an LOL Surprise…
Enough is Enough
General/Column September 29, 2017
She’s wearing that red sweater again, I think as my daughter sashays through the room in her favorite 35-year-old red…
Pessimism Crossroads
General/Column August 15, 2016
It’s bedtime. I steer my daughter into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She is whining about how she didn’t…
The Vulnerability Quotient
The 25th Hour April 7, 2016
When my daughter was five years old she was diagnosed with selective mutism. I immediately began researching the condition to…