A Mom’s Guide to Baltimore: Parenting
THE SETUP: Some of you may know that my family and I will bid adieu to Baltimore in mid-August. Since our announcement, I’ve had...
A Mom’s Guide to Baltimore: Shopping
THE SETUP: Some of you may know that my family and I will bid adieu to Baltimore in mid-August. Since our announcement, I’ve had...
You don’t know … if you don’t ask
Is there a gun your house? Is it locked up?
For some reason, parents I have talked to say they find these to be hard...
A Mom’s Guide to Baltimore: Entertainment
THE SETUP: Some of you may know that my family and I will bid adieu to Baltimore in mid-August. Since our announcement, I’ve had...
A Mom’s Guide to Baltimore: Food Deals
THE SETUP: Some of you may know that my family and I will bid adieu to Baltimore in mid-August. Since our announcement, I’ve had...
Naming It, Overcoming It
At not quite 3 years old, my oldest daughter is too young for a conversation about depression. But after the suicides of two beloved...
Why we are writing about shootings
In college in the early ’90s, I studied for a semester at the University of Nice, one in a group of about 15 students...
The Youngest Immigrants
My son is Guatemalan. I am not.
He became my son through adoption, when he was 10 months old. When I see photographs of crying...
In praise of fridge art
How many of your child’s first experiments with crayons and paint are still on your refrigerator — or even preserved in a box in...
A Fine Balance
For my family, this will be the summer of The Second Coming, by which I mean the birth of our second daughter in August.
My...
