“Mom! We’re out of avocados!” my 22-year-old daughter, Anna, bellowed. “And where are the goat cheese crumbles?!” People all over the globe are covering their faces and hands before entering grocery stores to buy life-sustaining food staples for their families sheltering at home, only to find them sparsely stocked. But in Anna’s world, being out…
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The Zoom Boom
via GIPHY Recently, a television jingle got stuck in my head. It’s from a PBS kid’s show I used to watch in the 1970s. My brain’s recesses are imprinted with hazy flashes of the program’s ethnically diverse cast of pre-teens dressed in matching striped shirts and bell bottoms, singing the opening sequence’s jazzy theme song….
On Pause: How DoD Stop Movement Order Is Affecting Families
In many ways, military families are just like civilians during the coronavirus pandemic. We’re all — military and civilians alike — holed up in our homes, suffering through virtual schooling, whining kids, surreal food shopping experiences, and fears about our financial futures. But few civilians know that many military families’ stressors have been magnified by…
Chicken Soup editor gives glowing review of ‘My True Lit Com’
Back in 2017, I ate dinner with Amy Newmark, the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, which has over 250 book titles, along with other products, television shows, and podcasts. Obviously, Amy and I weren’t sharing a deep dish at Pizza Hut or a Bloomin’ Onion at Outback. We were at the…