By Lady Words Contributor A chilly day in northern California. The light rain bouncing off the red dirt of the base line. The lonely, cold, and alarmingly spaced-out parent announcer sits in the booth behind a line of main characters in succession: the batter, the catcher, the umpire, and then the blessed wire fencing. Once… Continue reading Ball Count
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Can we afford to raise our kids in the Bay Area? Can we be happy anywhere else?
Life as a family is harder than most of us pictured. The unexpected root canals, the out-of-network therapist, the sports teams your children want to join, the travel you’d like to enjoy together, the sudden death of family across country and the resulting plane tickets; the costs add up. Life in the Bay Area has… Continue reading Can we afford to raise our kids in the Bay Area? Can we be happy anywhere else?
Sometimes To Get Through the Day You Need to End it at the Police Station
By Lady Words Contributor This 11-year-old boy is smart, creative, willful, sensitive, willful, determined, and willful and on this particular day he had it dialed up to 10. That morning, I had spent quite a bit of time making appointments, gathering documents, and generally trying to harness my rising anxiety and turn it into paperwork… Continue reading Sometimes To Get Through the Day You Need to End it at the Police Station
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