by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I’m a heart-pounding 9 days away from the first day of school. We have procured new shoes for gym, replaced high-water pants with new ones and are now sporting newly shorn heads – what remains? Two more chats. And these chats center on friendship. One thing maybe you...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I am 26 days from the first day of school. 26 days from all three of my children going to school. Not just two – all three. Not that I am counting (never mind that giant calendar in my office that has red X’s through every day of August so far). I jest (a little), but...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
It was 1991 when I read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye for the first time. I have read it several times over the past twenty or so years as it always proves to instruct me in critical and deep ways. I went on to read all of Morrison’s texts and studied her with fervor...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
My girls have a new favorite book. Each is taking a turn reading it, considering, and then just like girls from Jersey, they talk amongst themselves. Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio is a book about an African-American girl who upon studying the presidential...
