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Sometimes, when I think about R starting kindergarten, I feel like a bad country song: oh me, oh my, life is changing, woe is me, blah, blah blah. Other times, I’m looking forward to it—especially when I ask R how he feels about starting ...Read More

R starts kindergarten in September, and we’ve already started getting ready: paperwork, assessments, and lectures about transition and logistics. Last week, I received a letter inviting us to a tour of the school–at 1 PM on a Monday, which is challenging for this working ...Read More

  Being parent is messy, hard, rewarding, exhausting, exhilarating, overwhelming, lovely, funny, and really, really great. I write about my parenting journey here on Red Shutters for two reasons. First, I hope, by writing about the twists and turns my life has taken since ...Read More

This is a repost of an original article I wrote for BlogHer.com. My first introduction to the PTA (or Parent Teacher Association) was through my mother’s typewriter. Click, clack. Click, clack. My mother, co-president of the PTA, had volunteered to type up the recipe ...Read More