One Saturday every month is Community Gardening Day in Carl Schurz Park.  My nine-year-old daughter Clare and I head over to the volunteer table after a late breakfast to sign in and get our gardening gloves. 

It should tell you something about Amy Wilson that the original subtitle for her new book, When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer & Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be, was “Tales of a Former Perfectionist and Current Mother.”

It comes up all the time.  “Your husband is Japanese?  And are you raising your children bilingual?  What a gift that is.”  And I say no, actually, we speak English at home.