A year ago, I was one of only two pregnant people I knew—and the other lived 900 miles away.  About this time last year, through friends of friends, we met another pregnant couple, and before we knew it we were moving to Brooklyn, the baby capital of New York City, where we met even more […]

Making a friend is fun. Falling in love with a friend is great. Marrying the friend you’ve fallen in love with is wonderful. But nothing beats the look in your little boy’s eyes as he watches the friend you’ve fallen in love and married (or less cryptically, his daddy) goof off on a playground. Needless […]

Over the course of the last year, John and I have participated in a “Family Enrichment” program, run by the International Federation for Family Development.  The program uses the Harvard Business School case study model to look at situations in marriage and family life from an objective perspective, so that couples can grow as spouses […]