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How to unleash your suburban child on public transportation

1. Realize your child needs to be at a certain place multiple times for many days in a row. Driving the child is either not possible or not on your list of awesome ways to spend 80 minutes each day.

2. What about those large, shoebox-shaped vehicles with ads for musicals lumbering along in […]

The clumsy days

toddler in arm cast

Beatrix lost her two front teeth at the beginning of the school year. She looked predictably adorable. Slowly, her self-proclaimed buck teeth are descending into place. She frequently provides progress reports: “My buck teeth are about half-way grown!” I look and realize she doesn’t understand how big they will be. Her half-way is reality’s 25%. […]

Switching Strawberries

He saw it at Hobby Lobby and it was love at first sight. Like most instant connections, there was no way to explain the attraction. A nine-year-old boy begs for a strawberry growing kit for Christmas and the rest is a flash of snowman wrapping paper. Of course, he wanted to plant his strawberries on […]