Picturepocket's Blog

Category: family

  • For The Hesitant

    We have to chose from the devil we know versus the one we imagine.

  • How to P

    I learn more about my own language when I try to explain it to others. One man I tutored was trying to teach his kindergartener how ask to “go to the restroom,” but the words proved too much for the five-year-old. Instead, he taught him to say it like the men at the gym “I…

  • #Goals

    I have been trying to be very conscientious about how much time the kids spend indoors and be sure that everyone, including myself, gets enough sunshine, exercise and fresh air. So, yesterday after Eliana’s online school was over and everyone had had lunch, I put us all in shoes and loaded them up in the…

  • I Left My Heart in Asia

    (I can barely begin this piece because it breaks my heart thinking about what happened recently, but I know I will regret it if I don’t.) I have spent a good part of my life living and working with Asians. My best friend in the second grade was from Hong Kong. I had my birthday…

  • WandaVision

    A super hero story that we can all relate to.

  • The New Jonestown

    Through radio and the internet people have been falling down the rabbit hole—a virtual cult if you will.

  • Aesop’s Fabulous Fables

    So well known are these tales that we use them as shorthand for the point we are making.

  • Chapter 1

    Like a sequel in popular fiction, the second book is usually an exaggeration of the first.

  • Finding Christmas

    Nobody was under the illusion that this year was going to be an easy Christmas.

  • Through the Wardrobe

    This year, we’ve been reading the Chronicles of Narnia to Eliana, a chapter a night before bed. It’s interesting enough to keep her attention, but not crazy-making like Nailed It. We are wrapping up the seventh book, The Last Battle. In the story, a devious ape dresses a donkey in a lion’s skin and passes…