About Me (Us)
Me, a rather longish time ago now.
The “devils” we’re raising are Sam, born 6/01 in NYC, Lily, born 6/04 and Wyatt, born 3/06, both in New Hampshire and Rory, born 9/23/05 in China and adopted in July of 2009. They’re joyful, delightful, manipulative, agravating,infuriating, delicious and fabulous, and much enamored of one another. I don’t raise them alone, but I blog solo, so you may get the impression this is pretty much wholly my world. I’m told that’s an impression I convey quite often.
I’m a writer, a recovering lawyer, a former and someday once again New Yorker. I’m a freelance writer, covering parenting issues (among other things) and reviewing kids’ media for DoubleX.com. I also write for Parenting, Parents and others, and I’ll be doing a monthly column for Kiwi on the intersection of real life and aspirational organic parenting starting in April of 2010. My first book, Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos (co-written with Susan Straub) came out in May ’06. I have another in the works.
Write me to share your devil-rearing angst or to dish on the eating scene in NYC (or in the Upper Valley) at: kjATSYMBOLHEREraisingdevilsDOTcom. Obviously, you should fix that email address right up (just one of the many ways you’re a dramatic improvement over a spam-bot).
Raising Devils (the title) is an homage to the great Shirley Jackson (with a nod to my husband’s alma mater as well).
Googlers searching for entertainment should find me if they tap in: clever, witty parenting blog, blog full of writer’s angst, what happens if you try to cook pop-tarts over an open flame, a good nanny-exorcist is hard to find, china adoption can be hell on wheels or something to read instead of working. Googlers have actually found me by searching the following: poopy pants. It’s my final revenge on my son, that forever more, unless I choose to take it down someday, if you google the words poopy pants, you will find him. I think he may be pretty anxious to persuade me to change that someday, don’t you?
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