Our day-care center is closed for the week of Independence Day. I don’t understand it–nobody else takes the week off, and isn’t the POINT of day care to cover for you when you’re at work?–but that’s the situation, and we aren’t going to change it. Both my wife and have heavy-duty workloads this week, and …
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When I’m Going to Go Broke
Here’s a nice post from Lisa Belkin, about older parents and the fact that their own parents miss out on some grandparenting time. Briefly: If you wait till you’re 40 to have kids, then the grandparents miss out on a bigger portion of their grandkids’ lives. Not tragic—just a fact, and one with consequences. What …
Please, Do Not Be This Woman
Stopped at a bakery for a quick breakfast on the way to work this morning, and two women soon took the café table next to mine. One of them was exceedingly petite, in fashionably snug white jeans and stylish top, and the other expressed astonishment—because her pal was four months pregnant. And, as the pregnant …
When Your World Comes Crashing Down
I can’t get this out of my head. You go to the zoo on a summer afternoon. With your wife and 6-month-old daughter. They stop on the path so you can snap a picture, and a moment later your baby is dead and your wife is permanently hurt. The aftermath is predictable, this being the …