This Is Us
I Miss the 100 Days of May
Notes on parenting in the infinite present
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8 min readMay 26, 2020
For parents of school-age kids, May is filled with end-of-year concerts held in auditoriums with the acoustics of a school cafeteria, because it is the school cafeteria. These events are lovely and life-affirming, but they often start at nine in the morning or three in the afternoon or, occasionally, at…