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Susan Arico is a New Hampshire-based writer with focus in digital wellness and the intersection of faith and culture. You can follow her on her substack, For the Sake of the Good.
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I found myself very discouraged the other day. Defeated by parenting challenges with one of my kids. The day had been one in a string of frustrating days with this particular kid — in a string of similar weeks. Again. So deflated was I that I actually went online to try
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"Mom, what's the s-word?" It comes so innocently; no mischief, no fanfare. She's sitting working on her phonics, a page of "s-blends" images before her – snail; shirt; slow. It's the most natural place in the world for this thought to
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The kids and I drove to Alabama this week to visit family and friends. I was the sole driver (and adult) in the car for those 1500 round-trip miles … It was a lot of audio books, pretty much continual snacking, and — let's be honest — more DVD-watching than my
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"Doesn't it seem like people are sending their Christmas cards late this year?" my friend asked as we made dinner for our families late in December. It did. And there were fewer of them, too. We string our cards up on a line across our kitchen
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When I was a teen, this phrase came into vogue: "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." You saw it on car bumper stickers everywhere, and many mornings sitting in assembly, our school headmaster would address us about kindness using this phrase. My high school