The COVID-19 pandemic is often compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu. This historical event is also called the “forgotten” pandemic, as an entire generation of brilliant, influential writes like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway have hardly mentioned it in their work, while covering important political and economic events of the time. Now, many worry […]
Let yourself feel some pride over the fact that you’ve learned something new.
As parents, we tend to make the silliest, most unreasonable decisions. Are we so infatuated by our children, so loving of our creation that we will do anything to keep them by our side, forever in our embrace, forever secluded from the challenges of the outside world? How far does a parent go to keep […]
Technology is great, but pen and paper is so deliciously simple, intimate, and close to heart.
It’s never easy to accept that your kid is all grown up. I remember the shock I felt when my eldest daughter first told me that she had a boyfriend. Granted, she was six, and it was a boy she held hands with in preschool, but it was the first moment when I actually thought: […]