The baby was about four months old when I figured I should start doing some ?mom stuff.? But what did moms do? Although I?m 32, none of my friends have kids, so I was pretty much going it alone. The only things I had to guide me were my surreptitious observations of other moms down the aisle from me in the grocery store, and the direct mail … Continue »
Rules Of The Game
The first time I took my toddler son to the playground, I wiggled my toes in the sand and looked around, feeling amused and delighted to be revisiting a place that, twenty-five years earlier, had been a near-daily part of my life. The sun was shining, my baby boy was beautiful, and all seemed right with the world. I handed my son the shiny new … Continue »