Like the sun rises in the east, and infants will always save their diaper blowouts until you’ve put them in their car seat, there’s just some things you can always count on. It’s like, well, clockwork. After the tragic shootings in Wisconsin and Maryland over the last few days, like clockwork the gun control narrative…
There’s a picture hanging on the wall at my parents’ house—it’s a beautifully ornate wedding certificate that makes mine look like a piece of trash (no seriously—mine looks a piece of paper you might find on the floor of the copy room at work, whereas this one looks like this). It’s got to be at…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece imploring my fellow Americans to—if we truly want to protect our children—do three things in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: Stop spreading false information Seek truth Deal in reality I missed one … a big one. Care about human life no matter…
“You’re either with us or against us,” said one student attending the anti-gun rally in Tallahassee this week. Today, as one wise relative recently expressed to me, “the opinions/biases of progressive, anti-gun parents and community organizers are being given national front page limelight attention through the ‘innocent’ voices of thoroughly-coached, so-called ‘non-political,’ highly emotional high school…
Pregnancy’s a real trip. The heartburn, the aches, the pains, the sleepless nights—it’s a real carnival. One of these sleepless nights this past week as I was flipping through my phone at 3 am wishing desperately that I could fall back asleep, I saw a story popping up across my newsfeeds (yes, I read news…
You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer. It’s not that you might die—you will die … that is, if you do nothing. So, you’ve a choice: treat it with unsavory-yet-often-successful chemotherapy, or resort to homeopathic remedies you found on Pinterest. What do you pick? Well, duh. You’re going to pick the option that gives you the…
So, Halloween’s coming up—and we got an email this week from our daycare/preschool announcing the upcoming Halloween festivities. We can send our kids in the costumes of our choice, so long as we “refrain from bringing weapons to go with the costume.” I was so relieved to see that a zero-tolerance mentality extends to our…
When you become a parent, everything takes on new meaning. Especially when it comes to what your every action teaches your child. You start thinking about everything you do, and what your kid is going to learn from it. I may now be in charge of a little human being, but I’m still learning, too.…
My father told me the story of a young student facing an assignment in class. The task? Write an essay answering the following question: “What is courage?” The young man completed the assignment … with just two words. “This is.” And that was it. Sometimes the most powerful statements are those that use the fewest…
I grew up thinking it was a no-brainer. No qualifier, no asterisk, no nothing. A human is a human is a human. But last Tuesday, as I watched presidential candidates asked to actually choose between “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter,” I realized that it’s not that simple anymore. To an increasing number of…
A Future Free 