Sidelines at Caleb’s soccer football match last week: I think we classify this image under “the new normal.” (Plus that little kid in the jacket looks like he’s developing some mad skillz) When I wasn’t standing on the sidelines watching Caleb play, I wrote a post for the World Moms Blog about female heroines in YA literature. Which is to say, the surprising lack of female heroines in YA literature, …
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T-Ball Highlight Reel
As I type this, the US and UK are tied in their World Cup match, which is all very exciting and stressful. Husband yelps occasionally from the couch, causing Caleb to howl in sympathy, but the baying at the screen going on here is nothing compared to where Liam is: at the apartment of a patient friend, watching the game with eight other 4th graders. I imagine the noise in …
Fathers Playing Catch With Sons (with a nod to Donald Hall)
A long time ago, maybe even before Liam was born, Husband asked me if I wanted a baseball mitt, so we could, you know, fulfill some fantasy he had about a baseball-loving wife who would gladly shag flies with him in the park of a springtime day. Wrong wife. I don’t so much do baseball. I don’t so much do sports, basically. I like a lot of things, but I’m …