Editor’s note: I wrote this post after talking with my son Jack about what it’s like for him to receive presents. He reminded me that all he really wants this year is his Aunt Carolyn’s recipe for her chocolate cookies. He loves them, and last time she brought them he ate eleven of them. Hello. I […]
Ever since I was little, I wished I was an artist. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw the pictures I see in my mind with perfect clarity on a white canvas or blank sheet of paper. Landscapes. Sunsets. Women with parasols, children splashing in puddles. Autism. But I am terrible at drawing. Noses […]
Yesterday afternoon I poked my head into the family room where three of my sons, Jack, Charlie, and Henry, were sprawled watching Scooby Doo, and announced we were going for haircuts. “No!” they shouted in unison. “No haircuts!” I told them we’d stop at the school book fair first, and jollied them out the door […]