Parenting

He would have wasted the money I was saving for both of us. — My husband phoned me while he was in Arizona with our children. We both typically live in L.A. in separate homes, but he had taken our kids on a trip. He was calling to notify me that he only had $25 in his bank account. I felt many things when…

Over the last 23 years or so I’ve had an active project of trying to develop an embodied general intelligence (EGI). In case you haven’t heard about EGI, an embodied general intelligence is a form of intelligence that behaves exactly like a human adult intelligence — it’s both rational and…

“Her hair is too curly. The stylist isn’t comfortable cutting it.” The white, straight-haired receptionist said this to my biracial, bouncy haired daughter and I, as we sat in the waiting area. We’d arrived to the hair salon a few minutes before and hadn’t seen or spoken to the stylist…

“What is a rainbow connection?” my daughter asked, standing in front of her school and speaking into a microphone. “A rainbow connection happens when you’re admiring the beauty of a rainbow with people you don’t know,” she answered. “All of us at this school have a rainbow connection,” she added…

Maybe we don’t have to be completely fixed to have value — As I unpack the Christmas decorations, I am once again stymied by the broken angel. She’s been with us for over 20 years. She’s a lithe angel, with curly dark brown hair and a festive red gown, playing a drum. Well, she used to play a drum. Until the year…