What You Need to Know About Visiting the Zoo with Your Family This Covid Summer It’s been a long time since I wrangled the kids on a legitimate Family Field Trip — Covid has sure put a damper on our adventures of the past. I truly can’t imagine when I’ll feel ready to venture back …
How to Move From “Survive” to “Thrive” In the Wake of the Pandemic How many times have you said it over the past weeks? “When this is over…” I’m guilty. I’ve said it a hundred times. I’ve thought it thousands. It’s the security blanket of these unprecedented times. Maybe it’s a prayer we whisper before …
Forest Preserves Are Still Open and They’re Saving Our Sanity If you’ve been following awhile, you know I usually publish my Family Field Trip series posts on Friday, to give you ideas for the weekend ahead. But in COVID reality, the weekends just bleed into the weekdays and back again. Is a Saturday all that …
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 …
