Thirty years of election nights have given me much to pass on to my daughters about what it means to be a citizen.
Tag: parenting
Where Is Life Going to Take Her?
As parents, we don’t always know where life is going to take us. Neither do they.
I can’t always save them.
Sometimes the most important thing a parent can do is sit still and say nothing.
How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Death?
There’s no right or wrong way. Just better and worse ways to have an already difficult conversation.
Unfinished Business
A week of handling unfinished business.
What’s the Distance Between My Actions and My Words?
A high school check-in, six months of driving lessons, and the gap between what I say and what I actually do.
The good old days.
I’m living the dream, and sometimes I have to remind myself that these are the good old days, even if they don’t always feel like it.
Who Shows Up for Black Women?
A man-date, a room of Black men, and the answer I want my four daughters to see me live out.
What Will They Ask Me One Day?
Why I want the girls to copy my favorite morning routine one day.
A new summer tradition: compromise.
Nobody gets their way all of the time.
