I am driving my six-year-old daughter to the pediatrician.She’s in the backseat, breathing fast, labored.I’ve been up all night watching her chest rise and fall. In. Out. In. Out. A strange new wheeze rattles in her lungs. I am paralyzed by mom-anxiety. […]
People often ask why I wrote Things That Break Us. Sometimes I give the short answer: that I sat down in front of my computer during the pandemic and the story simply poured out of me. But the real reason runs deeper […]
On Friday, my elementary school kids had a lockdown. Not a drill. A real one that lasted hours because three armed men were loose in our suburban neighborhood. Before the police clarified that the threat was external to the school, my kids […]