As I was pulling Laylee’s piggy tale holders out tonight, she started whining.
“OW
OW
OW
OW
W
DOT
SLASH
OW!”
Does your kid have special things? A duck? A blanket? An infinitesimally miniscule bracelet that is of mind-boggling importance to her little preschool world?
Sometimes, when you’re visiting Daddy at the maze of a complex that we call MEGACORP for a reason and you can barely find your car again when it’s time [...]
For 7 hours we drove around getting further and further from home. If we’re already in Redmond, we might as well go to the mall in Bellevue. If we’re already in Bellevue, we might as well drive 15 more miles to IKEA. While we’re so close to the airport, I might as well take the [...]
*** This two-year-old post has recently attracted a lot of media attention. To be honest, it’s attracted attention on and off since I wrote it, usually by male caregivers who are hurt by my comments. It wasn’t until this recent round of linkage that I went back and read what I’d written with [...]
