About me

I have a fifteen-year-old and a seventeen-year-old, a kitchen island where most of our talking happens and a long habit of getting it wrong. I started writing down the short things my teenagers said, because they were never the whole story, and what I did next mattered more than I thought.

Each post is one phrase, said at a time of day you will know: what they said, what I think it meant and one thing to try. The posts are free. What I sell is the part you can put on the fridge: the phrasebook, the cards for the car, the planners and the courses for the days when nobody is talking.