A review by lexiww
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years by Catherine Newman
4.0
Catherine Newman has been my parenting soothsayer for more than a decade, and this collection of essays portends the wild, delicious Big Kid years I have ahead with my son.
(An aside: Newman and I were once at a holiday party together for a publication we both worked on. I embarassingly fangirled over her, hard, and mustered the courage to say hello. I asked her whether it ever got old to have a harem of childbearing women wanting to hang on her every word.
"It's not like they're trying to sleep with me," she'd said.
Bazinga.)
(An aside: Newman and I were once at a holiday party together for a publication we both worked on. I embarassingly fangirled over her, hard, and mustered the courage to say hello. I asked her whether it ever got old to have a harem of childbearing women wanting to hang on her every word.
"It's not like they're trying to sleep with me," she'd said.
Bazinga.)