My Daughter Isn’t Ready to be a Grown-Up

My daughter isn’t in any hurry to have a ‘real’ job. She’s not in a hurry to join the workforce; to make a name for herself; to carve out a niche in the world. To be a grownup.

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What Little Girls Are Made Of…

What Little Girls Are Made Of…

What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice,
And all that’s nice;
That’s what little girls are made of.

Popular Nursery Rhyme

The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). (Source)

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I remember as if it were yesterday having a lively, friendly and animated disagreement with a dear girlfriend about raising children. Specifically, about raising girls.

On Tinder, True Love and the Reading Glasses

My daughter recently came for a visit and I was thrilled to drive her back to her home province with a car filled with things she needed for her apartment.

“Mom, Don’t You DARE…”

When my children were in elementary school, they had a great many wonderful teachers whom I still think of fondly.

On Being Overwhelmed (Feeling ‘Little’)

Every single person occasionally feels overwhelmed, and those of us who suffer from anxiety feel that way a good deal of the time.

Little Red Toolbox

My father, despite rakish good looks and – once he got past his fifties brush cut – a hippyish demeanor, was an old-fashioned man.