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Proto-Teenager

I think the term “threenager” is misleading. It implies that three is the only age that comes with teenage-style attitude. Maybe we all know it, parents, and the term only came about because “three” happens to provide a slant rhyme with “teen”. If there was a similarly rhyming word

Drifting Away

I have some anxiety about death. Not my own, and not those of my dearest loved ones (that’s straightforward fear, not anxiety), but how to answer when it comes knocking at the door with news about somebody in my life. In the case of everyone significant in my life

Summer Solstice

As summer officially begins in the Willamette Valley, it’s rainy and gray outside my office window. It’s supposed to stay rainy all weekend. Instead of being out in the yard, letting the puppy chase us around and grilling steelhead, we are in the house revisiting our cozy, wintry

The Age of Fast Internet

School has been out for a week and we’re descending into YouTube Hell. There’s no day camp this week, and my husband and I are mostly working, so the kiddo gets left to his own devices quite a bit. “Devices” is literal. I can’t tell which is

An Introvert Travels for Work

Last summer, I was turned down for a job that would have let me travel several times a year. The job was with a former employer, where I knew most of the people and knew basically what to expect from the line of work, which was producing corporate events. I

Consumer

If I responded to every email asking for my feedback on something, I’d start to think the universe revolved around me. My opinion would be highly sought after. Companies would be at the edge of their seats, waiting for me to rate their product or service so they could

Second Wind

My son doesn’t get enough sleep, and it’s probably our fault. It drives me up the wall to be trying to relax in the living room at a decidedly late hour and hear the intermittent snap of Legos being put together, or the hollow sound of his closet

A Great Day in Kiddom

There has been a slow shift in our household, and the child that was once a nearly uncontrollable tornado of impulses has become a rangy kid. A kid who is almost at the end of his kindergarten year, who still clings to me when given the chance but also runs

NYC Food, Volume 2

Before this year’s trip to New York, I eagerly circled many food destinations in my guidebook; but as typically happens, I resized my ambitions after arriving and feeling overwhelmed by options. During my four days there, I mainly played it by ear and stuck to restaurants that didn’t

Just in Time: A New York Trip

A 2025 New York Trip