Army Nurse
My daughter Amirah just wrote her first real story. She’s twelve, so it is what it is, but I did ask her if I could share it on the blog. Very proud of her! Army…
Category: Parenting
They all met in a cliché
It’s difficult to describe just how proud I am of my kid for finishing his first novel. It’s off to be professionally edited soon. Short blog entry today, because I want to send you over…
Ten Life Lessons I learned from my Awesome Kids
My last post, about racism and confronting it within ourselves, generated a lot of argument here on the blog as well as amongst my Facebook friends. This one is not so heavy. I want to…
Warning: You may be more racist than you think. Erasing the lines that divide us.
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of arbitrary classifications. For most average…
Brief break
Taking a couple days off from blogging! I’ll be back. In the meantime, here’s one of my great and awesome kids, Amirah! She just got level 1 awards for solos in band tonight. Very proud…
The terrible two (teenagers, that is)
So last night I had a long talk with the kids about important things. To be specific, about identifying what are the most frequent causes of fights in our house, which are sometimes too stressful…