I’m thrilled to be hosting a FREE monthly morning reading series for parents/caregivers at the very cool new Oakland community space, Local Economy!

Modeled off my friend Nicole Haroutunian’s series in Queens, Storytime for Caregivers invites parents and caregivers to bring babies and toddlers along to a morning reading–but in a new twist, the books are for the adults! Each month I’ll be in conversation with a writer of fiction or nonfiction with a caregiving theme. They’ll read briefly, we’ll all chat, and they’ll end with a book for the younger crowd. After the one-hour event, we’ll have time for an IRL hang-out: a goal of this series!

Babies absolutely welcomed but not required.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026. 10:00-11:00: This month we’ll be switching it up and discussing caregiving for elders. With guest Courtney Martin, author of Learning in Public, we’ll chat about sandwich generation caregiving: how Courtney is caring at once for kids and a parent with dementia. While Courtney’s book about sending her daughters to their neighborhood public school is an excellent read, this conversation will focus on Courtney’s recent online writing on caregiving. All ages welcome at this free event, including babies!

• “What Our Intergenerational Household Taught All of Us About Care, Greater Good Magazine
• “How we’re failing our elders with Alzheimer’s and dementia,” San Francisco Chronicle
• Courtney’s newsletters about elder care, especially:

FREE registration link coming soon!

Past guests:
Minna Dubin, Mom Rage
Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls
Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
Ruth Whippman, Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
Elissa Strauss, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

If you’ve written a book with a parenting/caregiving theme and are interesting in participating in the series, please reach out!