Tag: parenting
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“She looked as if she had climbed out of her own grave. Which, basically, she had.”
A story about pets. Don’t read it on the bus.
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A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
I must confess I now find it difficult to truly and fully relax around people who haven’t had some significant tragedy and pain in their lives. Just another one of the many things that make me a fun hang. This is so relatable. My wife and I have had more than our share of very…
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“The fall brought me no kudos and no respect, but it did cure me of the habit of writing funeral speeches.”
Zadie Smith writes in the New Yorker about being (and having) a teenager. I have one myself and they’re having a rough time right now. Some of this brought comfort: Watching girls gather outside the multiplexes this past summer, choosing between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” I thought, Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Brittle, impossible…