Friday Joy: This Parenting Thing

I am very good at my job. Also: an actually-cute air purifier & what gentrification smells like.

Me, one year into parenting.

Next week my older son turns nine, which means almost a decade of me being a parent. This feels wild. In some ways it is easier to write about the hard parts of parenting than it is to write about the joys, which often sound like cliches. But despite the hard parts, being a mother is one of the most fulfilling aspects of my l…