by Lisa Marlin | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
What is it about parents that they think because they enjoyed something in their youth (that’s me in NYC in the top left photo), that their children (that’s my daughter, right, in the same place years later) will be just as thrilled about doing the same...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 4, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published
(A version of this essay was published in The Huffington Post on June 6, 2016) What I know of boxing, you can put in a box. A teeny tiny box. But I knew enough as a young mother that when Muhammad Ali came to town, it was time to grab the baby and go meet the greatest...
by Lisa Marlin | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
My first grandchild is due any day now and I’ve got two words of advice for his parents: Hold on. 1) Hold on to your lives before baby — to the memories of that time you met each other and started dating and broke up and then dated again until it just...
by Lisa Marlin | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published
My daughter Emmali [emma ⋅ lee] just finished her spring finals and is now officially a college senior! Seems like only yesterday I woke her so she’d be on time for the last day of high school. I think this letter that I wrote to her three years ago will...
by Lisa Marlin | May 7, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
“Do you ever regret having kids?” my daughter asks as she continues scrolling through Instagram posts on her phone. She’s sitting in the passenger seat as I drive to pick up a teammate to take them to practice. She has asked me this question countless times and...
