Category Archives: Family

June Articles

Here are two of my articles that appeared in Hudson Valley Parent this month:
High, Low, It’s Off to Hike We Go
Creative Campers
**Online Extra: Why Art Is Important Year Round**

A Short Season

This was one of the first essays I wrote as a mother. It was picked to be part of an online collection of essays three years ago, but I thought of it today as I was looking at schools for my 2nd little guy.
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Just give me a minute. Mommy needs a minute. I need to finish making [...]

I Take Care of the Kids (and Other Stuff)

(Again, this is a story that I never found a published ”home” for so I thought I would share it here. It is hard to abandon any of my babies without a decent farewell.) 
“What do you do for a living?”
I was attending a social function with my husband for one of the classes he was taking for [...]