Sometimes I catch myself watching my kids the way I watch these Florida storms roll in on the wind, feeling something is changing but unsure how fast it will arrive. Parenting my crew didn’t always feel like this. When they home schooled and I worked from home it felt steady, easy and sometimes slow. Now it feels like I am standing still while the ground, my children, and the world shifts constantly beneath and around me.
Somewhere between the glow of our devices and the cracks in the sidewalk where my youngest still looks for roly polies, I realized that parenting has changed shape. The country is shifting again beneath our feet—politically, culturally, digitally—and our children are growing up inside that movement. They are navigating the changing world as it unfolds in real time, filtered through screens that never sleep and conversations that arrive long before we are ready to have them.

I’m a single mom of three, and most days I feel like I’m standing at a crossroads with no map. The past holds fading traditions. The future offers algorithms. And in between, we are asked to raise children who can think clearly, feel deeply, and stay human in a world that increasingly asks them to perform, scroll, and consume. Technology has evolved from being a tool in our lives to becoming the landscape. It shapes how our kids learn, how they see themselves, and how they understand belonging. The work of parenting has become a balancing act of deciding when to explain, when to shield, when to sit beside them and admit that we are still figuring it out too.

My posts live in that in-between space—between screens and sidewalks, between national uncertainty and the quiet rituals of daily life. Between fear and hope. I write from noticing how the big conversations of the country echo in small moments at home. From believing that raising thoughtful children in a fractured, hyper-connected world is a radical act of care. At this crossroads, parenting is not just about preparing children for the future—it is about choosing, again and again, a future we are willing to imagine with them.

My observations and thoughts on living between screens and sidewalks.