by Mary Carver | Oct 17, 2013 | Family Life, parenting
Kindergarten is hard. At our elementary school it’s seven long, jam-packed hours. That time is filled with phonics and P.E. and art projects and math games and the fascinating (to me) navigation of six-year-old social dynamics. By the time my six-year-old gets...
by Mary Carver | Oct 16, 2013 | Family Life
We don’t … … go on picnics at the beach. At sunset. While holding hands. We don’t spend Saturday mornings snuggling in bed with the paper and donuts. We don’t burst into song or – as I mentioned – jump in bounce houses. We...
by Mary Carver | Oct 15, 2013 | Family Life, marriage
Nineteen years ago today, I put on my new outfit and let my friend Elizabeth curl my hair. My brother had offered to iron the back of my plaid vest and accidentally left an iron mark on the apparently fragile fabric, but it was okay. My matching plaid skirt fit...
by Mary Carver | Oct 14, 2013 | Faith Life, Family Life
I can’t watch Parenthood. That’s partly because I just can’t get jazzed up about spending an hour sobbing every week, but it’s also because, well, those Bravermans make me mad. Not mad at them, really. But just a tiny bit mad at every person...
by Mary Carver | Oct 13, 2013 | Faith Life
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial...
