(Essay originally published in Schwa Fire in Dec. 2014. Photos by Max Cooper.) When I met Wally just after moving to Asheville in early 2012, he was still deeply engaged in media reform advocacy, his life’s work. The nonprofit he ran was a unique blend of Internet service provider and progressive local news source for…
Tag: parenting
Reading Alone, Missing Togetherness
Reading books to my daughter each day, especially before bedtime, was such a cozy, important-feeling ritual through her early childhood. While I am glad that June is reading so well on her own now, her graduation to older-child-oriented chapter books and graphic novels has meant that she now reads most of the time on her…
Bathtime Serenade
I haven’t been playing a lot of music these days, but the one time I always do get out my guitar is during my daughter’s baths. I remember how my mom would always sit on the toilet seat with her guitar and serenade me while I was in the tub, and I feel called to…