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 grown-ups! 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.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026. 10:00-11:00: Nina Renata Aron, author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir and cultural history of codependency, set mostly in the East Bay. The book explores Aron’s love affair, as a young mother, with an addict. She told me, “I think there’s too little conversation about parenting under duress.” Let’s talk about it. Register here.

Past guests:
Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
Elissa Strauss, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others.
Ruth Whippman, Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity.

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