Part 1 of the Stranger Than Fiction Series Ever feel like you’ve poured so much of yourself into your kids that you forgot you had dreams of your own? That was me—until one family tradition handed me the golden brick on a road I didn’t even know I was building. For years, our tradition was… Continue reading Mamma Mia, Family Tradition, and The Golden Brick That Broke Me
Yale-Approved “Come on, it’s fun,” I said, mostly listening to every 80s song I ever loved streaming in the background. “If you had to teach a class, what would it be?” Skylar groaned. “Let’s talk about something else.” “I don’t know,” her boyfriend said, trying to make a good impression. “This is hard.” Alexandra stared… Continue reading If I Taught 80s Pop Culture
Sometimes our children’s dreams begin with someone else’s magic number, only to discover their own constellation along the way. And this is really a story about outgrowing lucky numbers—the ones we chase, the ones we inherit, and the ones our kids eventually outgrow. The Power of 13: When Dreams Take Root My ten-year-old daughter Skylar… Continue reading From 13 to 31: Outgrowing Taylor Swift’s Lucky Number
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