I dragged myself into the house the other night after work, exhausted, preoccupied with how quickly I could make dinner and hit the couch, when Sophie stopped me in my tracks — literally. “Look!” she said, pulling me over to the refrigerator, where she and the nanny had posted Sophie’s first junior high school report card. […]

Last week, Annabelle and her good friend Sophia performed a song in front of their entire school. I’m partial, but I can’t stop watching the video — or asking Annabelle to perform the song for me again or to write down the lyrics. Annabelle wrote the song (among others) and taught herself to play the […]

From almost the beginning, I have had one wish for Sophie: that she get married, have great sex and live happily ever after. I didn’t — and still don’t — have the career thing worked out, or the living situation, or a lot of other things I agree are equally important. (And yeah, yeah, all […]

The other day I opened Sophie’s school backpack and noticed she had a new set of folders — shiny, carefully labeled with each of her classes and in her favorite themes, kittens and nail polish. Her aide did it. She didn’t ask, or make a big deal out of it. She just did it, knowing […]