Lori Duff Writes
I tried to slip one of my daughter’s teachers a twenty dollar bill the other day, but she wouldn’t take it. I think she just felt hinky taking unexpected cash money from me, though my guess is if I had handed her a $20 gift card to an office supply store she’d have taken it.…
Last week, I wrote about chaperoning a middle school band festival and finding ourselves in the kind of hotel you’d expect to see chalk outlines in. Click here to read the beginning of the story. I stood in the middle of the room, unsure of what to do. The girls had plopped themselves on the…
Moms aren’t allowed to get sick. Lori Duff Writes about how she went against the rules, got sick anyway, and ended up with a Parenting Win. I have no time to get sick. No time at all. I don’t know about you, but there are only 24 hours in my day. Laundry doesn’t fold itself,…
Author’s Note: On Saturday, October 25, 2014, my son became a Bar Mitzvah. It is traditional for the Bar Mitzvah boy’s parents to say nice things about him to the whole congregation. Following is my speech from her son’s Bar Mitzvah. Normally, it is bad form to brag about your kids to a captive audience. But…