June insisted that she record this video of me demonstrating how NOT to eat, after she found humor in a couple of my other, similar demonstrations while I was trying to impart some table manners. It was actually hard to chew with my mouth open after so many years and meals of not doing so!
Tag: parenting
Return to Galápagos
The Galápagos Islands of Ecuador were my first international travel experience at the impressionable age of 19. Feeling stuck and discontent in the Ivory Tower, and with a burning itch to see what else was out there, I headed to the Galápagos as a volunteer ESL teacher with the program WorldTeach the summer after my…
My Partner, His Voice, Our Daughter
(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…
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…