I made all sorts of notes while I was reading Jennifer Senior’s All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood last month. I didn’t think I’d get all of my thoughts into my discussion of the book and planned a follow-up post, although I didn’t plan for it to go up quite so long after the review. But since it felt like many of us were on some form of blogging break during August, I really don’t mind […]

I don’t come from a particularly athletic family, but I am the bridge between two generations of passionate, engaged, involved spectators. My son started reading the sports pages soon after he became capable of reading anything, and twenty-odd years later, his sideline is writing about his alma mater’s athletic program. My father was never a sportswriter, but his sports reading was probably the model for his grandson’s. #181877364 / gettyimages.com Of course, neither just reads about sports–they’re viewers as well, with […]

(Disclosure: I used Grammarly to check for plagiarism free because when I express myself, I want to be sure it’s really myself that I’m expressing–and if it’s not, I want to give proper citation and credit where it’s due. This post is sponsored by Grammarly, but the opinions expressed in it are all mine.) Until I was well into adulthood, my reading habits were pretty firmly entrenched in the “Fiction and Literature” section of the […]