“Mom, have you ever smoked marijuana?”
"Mom, did you ever smoke marijuana?" my 11-year-old daughter, Lizzie, asked as we pulled up in our driveway, gravel crunching under the car's wheels. Her question wasn't totally out of the blue -- we'd...
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My parents are Tea Party. I'm a liberal. My husband is to the left of your average communist. Dinners together walk a tightrope of small talk -- none of us wanting to veer too far in either direction,...
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A week before the seventh grade, my family moved for the 13th time. My dad was in the oil business, and we left Indonesia, where I’d had friends, for a small Southern town, where I had none. My only...
View ArticleOur awkward talks about God
“I’ll make a peanut butter and matzoh sandwich since I can’t have bread,” Lizzie said, grabbing a knife from the drawer. My daughter, at 13, has decided she’s a little Jewish. Her ancestors, Irish...
View Article"Mom, have you ever smoked marijuana?"
I panicked when my daughter asked the question. So I did something bold: I told the truth
View ArticleWhat if my daughter grows up to be Republican?
At 12, Lizzie is a liberal like me. But what if one day she embraces the Tea Party, like her grandparents?
View ArticleInterview With My Bully: The mean girl I can't forget
My bully comes clean, 30 years later: "I was told I was special, so I acted special and better than others"
View ArticleOur awkward talks about God
At 13, Lizzie is finding her faith. How do I tell her I don\'t believe without influencing what she does?
View ArticleMy fear of a right-wing kid: I won't let my child become a Ted Cruz-voting...
Ted Cruz? Lizzie is a liberal like me now. But what if one day she embraces the Tea Party, like her grandparents?
View ArticleI thought travel was a thing of my past
I tried to convince myself I could live vicariously through others. But with a second marriage came a second chance
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