At some point, while I was immersed in crash courses on parenting in the initial midst of having three babies born back-to-back, I remember sage advice from a class I once took at a parenting resource center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The class was always about parenting in general but the particular focus that day […]
When I was about the age my kids are now, my family had been undergoing upheaval for a few years. We uprooted in early 1975 from our Phoenix home, where I’d been since birth, and transplanted to Pittsburgh, in relation to my father’s work for the aluminum-fabrication company Alcoa. We were just getting semi-adjusted to […]
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Our favorite sensitive one, PAOLO BRANDON is currently having a temper tantrum on the couch. After coming home in a chipper mood and with a crisp to-do list after school, Paolo did his 30 minutes of reading and then dove into his math work. But only a few […]
My husband’s been working a lot this summer—working too much, I think, but it’s the kind of deadline-driven work that becomes difficult to measure after a while. You just work and work and work and there’s this bottomless pit of endless work facing you, and everything’s behind schedule, and no amount of goal-reaching offers any […]
After picking up the family tent stakes at the end of June and moving from one city to another not very far away, I left all the corrugated cardboard behind for a lengthy road trip to Ohio, America’s Heartland, with my children and mother to visit her parents.
Four generations of the family managed successfully to […]
I have much news to report, but the most current is that I have been beset with a number of poisonous skin rashes of the variety that are exacerbated by the recent heat and humidity. Concurrent with the recent move from one city to another, I’ve also managed to catch back-to-back viruses, like a mild […]
Cuz he’s funny, he’s a Bahá’í, his son’s name is Walter, his wife is Holiday, and he appears to manage to balance his fame with moderation, grace, humility and, of course, humor. What’s not to like?
In a recent interview originally for US Bahá’í News, reprinted with permission from Bahá’í World News Service, Wilson said, “I […]
My family spent our new year’s day—March 21, also known as Naw Ruz—at the home of some friends in the city who use a wood stove for heating and cooking throughout the colder months. The house was a little chilly, as the family was down to using just kindling during (what we hope will be) […]
While I spent much of February pretty much stuck in bed, I can say that it is not a bad lifestyle, at least as long as it does not go on too long. Being the person that I am, I did not lie there inordinately; I would just grab as many successive hours as I […]
I have spent the past week doing my own private equivalent of a marathon, insisting that I work as hard as possible in spite of being sick, while carrying with me a knot of tension on my back and shoulders about as thick and cumbersome as a mature oak tree. When this happens, sometimes I […]