My mom called me from her flip phone on a sunny spring day. “Laura,” she said. “I can’t do Facetime but I want you to know that our baby is beautiful.” I know this, of course. “Our baby” is my mom’s great-granddaughter, my granddaughter Margo Lake, and, like all baby humans, she has grown even [...]
"My eyes are wet from the cuteness," the little boy said and he rubbed them as he sat next to me and scrolled through videos of our baby granddaughter, Margo Lake. "She is so adorable." And then, "What am I to her again?" "It's fair to say you're her uncle," I said and I explained [...]
I'm ba-ack. And I can't believe I got to spend two weekends in a row with a perfect little peanut named Margo. I also got to spend time with one of the four woman honored by her name. That feels like a privilege too. Margo owes her first name to all four of her great-grandmas [...]
I believe we learn equally from the generations we follow and the ones we (and then they) bear. Those of us lucky enough to be sandwiched between multiple generations are the most fortunate learners of all. So I knew, as I held my sweetly swaddled little granddaughter, that I wanted to teach her specific things [...]