creamy

Sometimes I feel like a dad in a bra. I travel a lot for work and often miss two-weeks’ worth of Lego masterpieces, bathtub confessionals, bedtime tuck-ins and, even, painfully, the occasional milestone. There’s the attempt to Skype (although I can’t compete with my boys’ fascination with their own image.) The guilt-ridden airport-shopping for treats. ...


sense of wonder

“One stormy autumn night when my nephew Roger was about twenty months old I wrapped him in a blanket and carried him down to the beach in the rainy darkness. Out there, just at the eve of where-we-couldn’t-see, big waves were thundering in, dimly seen white shapes that boomed and shouted and threw great handfuls ...




sneakers

I had an experience the other day that we all have at one point or another. A quasi-time travel/shape shifting mindmeld where you are simultaneously the main character and the audience. I was doing some planting in the yard, wearing ill-fitting pants and outdated sneakers that I save just for such occasions. Pants too short, ...


Momma_Love_Deborah_Copaken_Kogan

Last year, in honor of Mother’s Day, we featured the writing and photographs of Ali Smith. She shared with us some powerful stories of motherhood, and we are grateful to her and the moms she featured. This year she’s sharing with us again. And next year…drum roll…her book Momma Love: How the Mother Half Lives, ...


baby

Maybe it’s a little case of spring fever, but I find myself particularly excited for the new crop of babies coming into my life this season. Like the first snowdrops near the end of a long winter, I am oohing and aahing and overwhelmingly delighted to ogle tiny fingers and toes all curled up around ...


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