People/Places/Family/Life
Check out these wonderful beacons of community I had the privilege of covering for Preservation. I had no idea how many amazing firehouses are out there!
6 Adaptively Reused Firehouses Spark Connections in Their Communities
Published in Preservation, Winter 2024
I’m thrilled to share my latest article and my first for Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They do wonderful work preserving historically and culturally important places in the United States, and I’m so happy to be a small part of this mission. It was also a blast to research this article, and I’ll never look at a gas station the same way again.
7 Former Gas Stations Transformed into Must-Stop Restaurants
Published in Preservation, Fall 2021
I’m a bit late (OK, a lot late) in sharing my latest essay for Cleveland Magazine. Its real headline (the one you see here) is the one my editor gave it, but I just like to call it “The Oma Pan.” It’s a story of stuff and memories and clutter and grandmas—I hope you’ll take a read if you haven’t seen it yet.
How Revisiting Family Heirlooms Brings about New Meaning
Published in Cleveland Magazine, August 2021
Allowing kids to try to meet (and master) real-life challenges helps them build a healthy, protective sense of self-efficacy. Happy to share my latest for the New York Times.
Emptying the Dishwasher Can Enrich Kids’ Mental Health
Published online February 11, 2021, and in print on February 14, 2021.
If you haven’t heard about Bean Dad, lucky you, I think? (I’ll explain. And briefly, I promise.) But, really, it is possible to be kind and to raise capable, independent kids. Here’s my latest for Washington Post.
How to Raise Capable Kids Without Feeling Like a Jerk
Published in Washington Post, January 5, 2021
(Photo by Marisa Howenstine on Unsplash)
Who would have thought anyone could miss an 8-hour road trip. Well, in 2020, all things (and no things) are possible. My new essay:
When There’s No Holiday Road Trip
Published December 22, 2020 in Your Teen
Yesterday, my youngest and I got our flu shots. It’s our yearly routine to do this at Target, because Target gives each of us a $5 gift certificate, and some free money to spend immediately takes the sting out of a shot for most kids. (My elder two were a little put out that they got theirs at their well checks and missed the annual shot-and-spend tradition).
The good news is that the pharmacist said that far more people are coming in for their flu shots this year. Actually, that’s great news–as you’ll see when you read what Dr. Redfield told me during our recent interview. Even young people need flu shots, as Dr. Redfield too well knows from his family’s own influenza tragedy.
Published in Your Teen magazine, September/October 2020
Maybe it should be, but this is not an article about school. I definitely have no idea what to do about that. It’s about parenting when you can’t come up with the kind of knowledge and certainty that is, well, so quintessentially parental. And yet, we parent anyway, don’t we?
I Have No Idea What’s Happening: 4 Ways I’m Parenting in Uncertainty
Published in Your Teen, July 2020
This is wild. But it’s not all bad.
4 Lessons I Hope My Teens Learn from a Coronavirus Quarantine
Published in Your Teen, March 2020
I’m so happy to share my latest, a feature article about intuitive eating for the January 2020 issue of Real Simple. My interest in intuitive eating began with both skepticism and curiosity (a personal story I may write about in the future) and transitioned into a reported article that took (off and on) most of 2019 to write and rewrite. It’s a complex topic that was hard to distill into one article, but I’m proud of how it turned out. Hope you enjoy it!
Intuitive Eating Is a Happier and Healthier Way to Eat—Here’s How to Begin
Published in Real Simple magazine, January 2020 issue