Tag: Week in Review

  • Opening credits Several months ago, I wrote a column for my dad’s newspapers about life as a new mother. Now I’m working on another one, about the part that technology played in our first year of parenting. Recently I read my friend Jasmine Warga’s second book, HERE WE ARE NOW. On the surface, it’s about…

  • Ho-ho-home for the holidays My parents were here for a week to celebrate the holidays with us and IB. Everyone except the baby was sick to some degree, and the weather has been amazingly cold, but other than that, it was really nice. I love watching my parents with my child, and vice versa. Their…

  • Life is a zoo I’ll probably do a separate post reflecting on how my writing has gone this year, but the short version is: Motherhood is even more demanding than I anticipated. More wonderful, as well. IB is 14 months old and changing constantly. Her growth is both miraculous and bittersweet. Sometimes I wish she…

  • As an experiment, I’m doing away with the bullet points, even though they’re like a security blanket for me. “Oh, this is just a list, not a real blog post.” But what does that even mean, lol? What’s a fake blog post? And why do I have to take everything so seriously? Transparent Like Jane the…

  • Just before 2014 ended, I snuck in another Just Between Us column for my dad’s newspapers. “My Neighborhood, My Oasis” is a quiet piece. An attempt to grow my skill set and write about small, ordinary things in interesting ways. Watching the Golden Globes on Sunday night reminded me of just how many Best Picture contenders I haven’t seen.…