There is a ton of interest in the Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair, and for good reason. This versatile, attractive and well-made high chair is one of the best baby products on the market. Many parents have questions about the ins and outs of the Stokke Tripp Trapp, and in this post I’ll go over…
In an ideal world, all of our children would love to go to school, love to learn, love to work on their reading comprehension and writing skills, and be effortlessly talented with numbers. As a parent, it’s natural to wonder how to get your child interested in school. In reality, kids sometimes dislike studying. And there…
If you have a young kid, you know the appeal of superheroes. In this gift guide I’ll go over the best Spiderman toys for the superhero fan in your life. Spiderman ranks as one of the all-time classics. Kids today are just as into Spiderman as they were decades ago, so it’s no surprise that…
This weekend it struck me: My daughter, who is just a year old, will never know a world where there hasn’t been a woman in the White House. And until the age of 41, I’ve never known a world where there has. My kids will never live in a country where there hasn’t been a…
I woke up tense today, the remnants of a terrifying dream close at hand. Something – a dark figure – was coming at a large crowd of us from the distance. I couldn’t make it out exactly, but I knew – we all knew – to run.
It wasn’t until a few hours into the day that I realized it was September 11th.
So many of us are walking around with losses so heavy that sometimes we can’t breathe under the weight of them.
But we keep walking around.
Some of our losses happen in a big public way, like 9/11. Unthinkable personal tragedy and unprecedented national tragedy intertwined, forever.
Other losses happen quietly, in our homes, in our private spaces away from the public.
Sooner or later we all carry the weight. We all miss someone terribly. We all know the terror of a nightmare, and sometimes our nightmares come true.
I’m missing my mom terribly today, because I miss my mom terribly often.
And on this date, I remember that so many people have felt the terror of something coming for them that they couldn’t understand.
That this is the day that too many people started missing their special person.
Terribly.
[…] And the world is too big sometimes. […]