My daughter was playing after dinner the other night and casually said, “Pá, guess what! Blue and red make purple!” Queue the proverbial double-take. (She’s only just turned three, so this was kind of a big deal.) In her daycare/pre-school program, she’s learning about animals and colors and letters. She’s also learning languages and…
I started my day out like every other. I had a million things to do today, including two projects I needed to submit to clients. It was your standard “I can’t afford to lose any time” kind of day. I’m about an hour into my workday, and the phone rings; it’s our daycare (cue the…
A few days ago I sat scrolling through Facebook—and a video appeared on my feed. In short (and you can watch the full video plus more here), the clip was about why he walked away from the liberal left he once belonged to. In it, the man realizes that the Democrat Party has long “encouraged…
The definition of insanity—or so they say—is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (And for the record, no—Albert Einstein didn’t say it. But I’ve digressed.) I’m reminded of a story I read recently to my young daughter where Winnie the Pooh tries to bury a pot of honey in…
You know those times when you and your siblings would be squabbling despite your mom’s repeated calls to knock it off—and finally she’d yell “ENOUGHHHHHHHH” so loud all your heads would jerk to attention? Yeah, would love to be able to do that now, but on a much larger scale. Seriously, ENOUGH. I don’t often…
**UPDATE** Alfie Evans has now been alive for almost 70 hours post-life support removal. As courts have again rejected the parents’ plea to take Baby Alfie to Italy, they are now simply begging the hospital to be allowed to take him home. I couldn’t wait to meet our son. As he came, there was…
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…
My daughter’s currently obsessed with the movie “The Boss Baby” (or “Mean Baby” as she puts it). At one point in the film, Tim—the seven year old who’s feeling the squeeze of the baby—is cornered by Boss Baby and informed that unless he gets with the program, “there will be cutbacks.” A distraught Tim goes…
When I first moved back to the United States after living abroad, I worked at the local Dairy Queen to make ends meet while my husband and I worked through the immigration process. During a particularly busy Saturday afternoon, the line to the counter wrapped around the corner in the mall—and we were rushing to…
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…
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