Parenting
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On pandemic-era incarceration.
During the pandemic, a crummy situation has become even worse.
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On the apparent rise in transgender and non-binary identities.
Our culture has changed, but so has the environment, and we need to acknowledge both.
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On vocabulary and time.
Psychological time is relational, but we don’t have a word for it!
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On perspective and Zoom.
It’s easy for our experience of the world to blind us to others’ realities. Over Zoom, you see less suffering.
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On magic.
No matter how well our culture hides it, everyone will die someday.
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On childcare.
Love from parents is great, but children benefit most from a whole network of care.
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On sending kids to school.
I worry when I send my kids to school. I worry that my kids might be hurt by guns, bullying, climate change. But not Covid-19.
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On autism and parenting.
My kids are lucky to have such dissimilar parents. Which is happier than thinking I’m the defective parent.
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