Okay, a full disclosure is needed here. I’m generally not fond of Y.A. books (Young Adult books, for those of you who might not know). In general, they’re scary. At least for this parent of a young girl. And I say this having taught high schoolers for eight years! I’ve found the perfect anecdote that […]
Despair in The Sparrow
I’ve just finished The Sparrow, and I’m a little unnerved by it, to say the least. The despair is so tangible, so grossly real, that I myself have all the same questions the hopeless Emilio expresses in the end. And because I don’t want to ruin the awful ending for any of you who decide […]
Marriage
Dan and I will have been married 18 years in June, and I’m sure Dan would agree with me, as I with him, that we are not the same two people who exchanged wedding vows on that warm summer evening in 1991. The importance of that statement (not being the same people) cannot be explained […]
Silent Accomplices
Dan and I talked a lot this weekend about certain aspects of parenting that work much better when the parent knows him- or herself, when the parent can react to the child out of maturity, not out of anger. I’ll give a couple of examples. These happen to be (externally) good examples, but I wasn’t […]