Cinnamon and Sassafras

March 3, 2015

Silas The Author

March 2, 2015

I’ve been thinking for a while about how everyone who sees me with my kids…

March 1, 2015

We had a much more subdued Lunar New Year celebration than we had planned. We were…

February 28, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to talk with my kids about race (and…

February 22, 2015

I got Silas to read on camera!

February 21, 2015

Our fabulous plans to go to the Chinese New Year Parade in DC were snowed…

February 19, 2015

Silas can *read*! Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words, anyway. We were reading his bedtime story the other night,…

February 16, 2015

Silas says (very excitedly over breakfast): “Petra, I need to tell you something!” Petra: “What?”…

February 13, 2015

In 2009, JC and I signed up to mentor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Our local…

February 10, 2015

Today on the way to school, Silas asked me how a mommy and a daddy…