by Dawn | Apr 15, 2015 | self-improvement, writing
I was in line at AAA getting my new license. I didn’t want to drive with an expired one. Once I forgot to register my car for two years. “Do you know you skipped an entire registration cycle?” the registry person said. I was pretty pregnant. Everyone...
by Dawn | Apr 8, 2015 | parenting, religion, Teaching
I told Declan the story of the Passover the other night. Too many people separate Judaism and Christianity. I imagine being a Jew in the time of Jesus–Romans, poverty, political turmoil. Being a Jew in the time of Jesus was sort of like being a colonist...
by Dawn | Apr 3, 2015 | technology, writing
“Sign up here to receive a handwritten letter…” I signed up right away. I’m an adult. I can no longer imagine getting an envelope in the mail that doesn’t demand money. What a delightful project by Australian artist Gert...
by Dawn | Apr 1, 2015 | parenting, writing
Our first book is live. It’s about a little dinosaur who annoys his mom. I wrote the words, and the brilliant Sarah Steenland drew all the pictures. I’m late in releasing the education book I’ve been working on forever. That’s because the...
by Dawn | Mar 20, 2015 | parenting, technology
“Hey, Mom!” said Declan. “I can post to Facebook and I don’t even have one.” I wasn’t listening. There are two categories of things that come out of kid’s mouths–things to ignore, and things we should notice. This was...
by Dawn | Feb 15, 2015 | Rhode Island
New England has been buried under twenty feet of snow for a few weeks now. Maybe that’s just my plow pile, or God’s way of saying “Stop speaking in those silly accents. I can’t understand you.” He’s frozen us in blocks of...
