For Better or Worse Another Summer Slips and Slides Away

For Better or Worse Another Summer Slips and Slides Away

If you’re a parent who spends a lot of time online, it’s hard to escape the meme about making the most of the 18 summers you have with your children before they leave home.

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When Your Child Has a Chronic Illness, It Changes Everything

When Your Child Has a Chronic Illness, It Changes Everything

When you’re a parent, you eventually find some sort of rhythm. It doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, it probably takes years for almost everyone. The addition of another child at any point along the road typically requires a reset.

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The Quiet Can Be Deceiving When You’re Parenting at the End of the World

The Quiet Can Be Deceiving When You’re Parenting at the End of the World

Most weekdays now I drop my kids off at school around 7:30 in the morning while the light is soft and the Florida winter air feels expectant.

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How a Tiny Dog Helped Me Find My Way

How a Tiny Dog Helped Me Find My Way

Before there was a wife and three kids and everything else in this life that I type about on the blank white space of my laptop late at night and lay bare on the pages of the internet, there was a dog.

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How I’m Navigating Quarantine

How I’m Navigating Quarantine

We’ve been muddling through distance learning with a second grader and kindergartner, letting the kids watch tons of YouTube and play tons of Minecraft, and when my daughter runs into the table, taking her to my wife’s hospital so my wife can come out to the parking lot and repair her face with surgical tape instead of risking a visit to urgent care to get stitches.

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It Took Growing Up and Having Children for Me Learn to Love Halloween

It Took Growing Up and Having Children for Me Learn to Love Halloween

When I was a kid, I never really loved Halloween. I didn’t really like it that much either. And while I’m certainly not a Halloween fanatic now, I’ve definitely come around.

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