[1]Over the weekend I was in a perfectly fine mood, until hearing an NPR interview with Jennifer Senior who has just written a book about having kids, All Joy and No Fun [2]. Senior also writes for New York Magazine, one of my favorite periodicals, and she’s smart, funny and charming. Even so, I was fuming. The conversation went off the rails for me when Senior started talking about parenting as an “unrivaled” joy. I started thinking about my moments of unrivaled joy which include eating paella home-cooked on a Tuscan grill under the stars in Sonoma, listening to Yo-Yo Ma perform live from the 6th row-orchestra, laughing uncontrollably over nothing really with my dear friend, William, and every once in a while, even prayer. What comes to mind for you?
Cartoon in The New Yorker [1] by Michael Crawford