In the age of COVID-19, working parents have abruptly been thrust into a whole new world. Our schools and our daycares — our lifelines — are closed. We’re suddenly faced with the challenges of balancing work life and home life on an entirely new plane: one in which the two have collided in the most …
When Easton barged into the house after school on Monday, I was in the kitchen, shaking a bottle of barbecue sauce. “Is that medicine for the coronavirus, Mom?” Granted, it was an oddly shaped bottle — but it was clearly time to have a conversation. Certainly everyone else is talking about coronavirus. My email is …
My Picks to Re-“Kindle” 😉 a Love of Reading I’ve been a bookworm my whole life. From the moment I learned to make sense of letters and words on a page, I was hooked. I didn’t watch TV or movies as a kid. Instead, you’d find me, often hanging upside down off a couch or …
Move over, pumpkin patches and haunted houses. There’s a new Halloween experience in town, and it’s LIT. OK, sorry. Bad puns aside, if your family are fans of Morton Arboretum’s Illuminations or Brookfield Zoo Lights, this Halloween lights spectacular is worth checking out. A cool evening with that unmistakable crispness in the air will have …
