Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Mar 17th, 2015
Naive though he still may be, Simon is learning the gentle art of white lies in the promotion and defense of self interest. Simon used to be so timid that he had a hard time standing up for himself, especially if the unwanted attention or action was physical. I used to worry that he would […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Mar 12th, 2015
She doesn’t know it yet, but my mother volunteered in Simon’s class yesterday. Or at least, a younger, shorter, darker version of her did. Those differences between the two of us aside, she surely would have recognized nearly every word that came out of my mouth. And that would be because today, for the first […]