Thank you to all who left a comment on my last post. Thank you so much. Here’s the cherry on top that I promised. I just wish I could give you each one of the actual profiteroles that Lulu made for her grandparents’ birthdays, with handmade bittersweet chocolate sauce, of course! I was touched that [...]

I need your help. I’m writing myself in circles with the chapter I’m working on, and it occurred to me that some feedback from actual rather than virtual people would be incredibly useful. I have two questions that I’d love to have answered. What are your concerns regarding your kids and writing? What goals hopes do [...]

The latest episode of my waldorf guilt. If you haven’t been reading along, these are the posts in which I wring my hands over how un-waldorfy things can get around here, and how I tend to feel guilty about it. Or try to justify why I don’t feel guilty. I’ve been feeling less and less [...]

It’s time for me to report back to you on whether I deserve a pat on the head or a kick in the butt on my book project. Finding interesting photos for this project is sure to be a challenge in itself. My goal is to write a draft of a chapter each month. I [...]

This weekend, Lulu and I went on retreat with our mother-daughter group, to the hostel in Point Reyes. It was a glorious weekend. The eight pairs of mothers and daughters formed from our homeschooling support group, back when the girls were eleven and twelve. A few of the girls have left the larger group to [...]

On New Year’s morning, I woke to find a message in my inbox telling me that Scott Russell Sanders had left a comment on my blog. Sanders was my essayist for October, and reading his message was such a thrill, and a closing more satisfying than I ever could have imagined for my year-long project.  [...]