December 17, 2014
It’s Not Someone Else’s Problem
It’s not someone else’s problem. It’s not: Oh, look at that mom over there whose child is shrieking and kicking her in the face. Poor lady. He must have autism. Or: Too bad for those parents whose daughter has a list of life-threatening allergies that’s two pages long. You know the little girl I’m talking […]
July 30, 2014
This Mom Turned 45—But You Won’t Believe How She Celebrated Her Birthday.
By Elizabeth Kilpatrick My friend Jennifer was feeling depressed about her birthday. It was very hot in the small town on the West Coast where she lived, it felt like her kids had been bickering non-stop all summer, and her mom’s sudden death two years before on the 22nd, just five days before her birthday, […]
