How-to Cope: Welcome to Life’s Learning
Editor's note: I am, like, totally, ridorkulously excited to introduce How-to Cope, a new weekly column on Umami Girl. When I started this site back in yonder days of 2008, I had in mind to share with...
View ArticleHow-to Cope: Welcome to Life’s Travels. We’re Stopping for Tea.
Author’s note: Welcome. Thank you for joining me. Are you up for seeing the world? I’m a bit of a traveler. I have always tried to be, but not always for the same reasons. Life strikes me as more...
View ArticleHow-to Cope: Let it Grow
I grew up growing things. Some of my favorite memories of being little include growing alfalfa sprouts in a glass pickle jar on a window sill and running out to our asparagus field with a paring knife...
View ArticleHow-to Cope: What You Learn on a Trip to the Museum
Join Cope and his oldest daughter on an adventure to meet the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, and find out why sometimes the best lessons are hiding in plain sight.
View ArticleHow-to Cope: Daddy, can we read?
What is it about reading aloud with the little ones that seems to pay in spades? Cope shares thoughts from our family's beloved tradition of reading aloud and solicits your own thoughts and...
View ArticleHow-to Cope: A Pretty Picture
Cope and the girls explore the Google Art Project. Come play!
View ArticleHow-to Cope: Tell Me the One About…
“Hey Dad, can you tell me a story about when you were little?” In our home, or more accurately in our car, the above is generally code for “Hey Dad, I feel carsick and am about to de-sanitize the...
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