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The Hunt for a Nanny Part IV: the Liaison
If you’ve been following our saga in finding a nanny (catch up on Part I, Part 2, and Part 3 here), I first want to thank everyone for their support and commiseration with the whole process, and for...
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Because Baby Goats
One of the perks of being able to be home with Cy is that when he has those not-so-good days, I can try to pop out with him into the city and go do something special. Yesterday, he hadn’t been sleeping...
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Suddenly Mom
When I make a connection with an individual student at SOLD and know we have a shared hobby or that I can expose them to more wide and varied experiences related to their interests, I like to try to...
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Gratitude
Feeling thankful for great dads. A present father is such a gift. A little thing. But such a big, big thing too. This weekend I encountered the difference between a child loved and a child who had...
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A Trip to a Favorite Temple: Wat Pa Laad
There’s a famous temple on a hilltop here in Chiang Mai called Doi Suthep. It’s where all the tourists go, climbing innumberable steps to the summit to look down on the city below, bypassing peddlers...
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Island Escape: Koh Chang
* I tried to post this last week, but the internet here is beyond slow and I couldn’t upload any of the pictures. I had to find a bar to get the pictures to upload–which I suppose isn’t such a...
View ArticleBlogging is Dead – But Maybe Not For Me
When Andrew Sullivan announced he was going to quit blogging, it sparked a spate of articles (like this one) declaring the death of blogs—at least the old school kind. Though I never actually read...
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Life Around the Bend
Around the time I decided to change up my approach to blogging, I made some other adjustments that really brought me so much relief and renewed focus. I’ve been working at finding creative ways to...
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Knowing Our Limits: What Not to Say to Each Other
There’s this thing women seem to have started saying to each other when we come up against something we’ve decided we won’t put up with, whether because we shouldn’t or because we can’t. When we say...
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Mother at Sixteen
Sitting with the slight, sixteen-year-old girl on tattered bamboo mats in her family’s modest home, we compared our babies: their age and weight, their entrance into the world, how well they sleep at...
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