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“That’s not my job.” My least favorite four words. Words that seem to be on repeat in a house full of teenagers. After Steve died, we had to redistribute chores, and just as we were finding our balanc...

A few days ago, E came home from her first swim class in gym and her takeaway was, “I can’t believe how many people don’t know how to swim.” The sad thing is that we do live in a community where swimm...

At long last, A has shipped back to Boston to start his second semester of college. I dropped off quite a different young man than I did in August, one that was actively looking forward to rejoining h...

A few weeks ago, the kids and I were walking through New York City when we passed a store with a sign that said “Diane von Furstenberg.” The kids were doing that thing where they just read all the sig...

One of the most interesting things about having A home from school, other than the exponential increase in laundry and dirty dishes, is the new depth of conversations that we have about everything. Hi...

It has now been three years. Thirty-six months. 1,096 days, one extra one for leap year. 26,280 hours. 1,576,800 minutes. I have felt every single one of those moments acutely. I can relive every sing...

As I sit here winding down 2024, I realize that it wasn’t the worst year. Granted, our bar is pretty high when it comes to having a bad year. I really don’t know that I will ever be able to even consi...

It’s our third Christmas without Steve. Some people might think I have this figured out by now. I know that some people do because someone recently directed a person who’d lost someone this past year ...

I cook a lot. I bake a lot. I consider myself pretty handy in the kitchen. There isn’t a recipe I won’t try, at least once, and most of the time, they come reasonably close to what I think they’re sup...

Well, here is a column that I certainly never thought I would be writing, but after reading assorted comments on a recent Facebook post, I feel like I have to throw my 2 cents in. Take them for what t...