The Owl
Thoughts on slow childhood, intentional spaces, and the stories that stay with our kids long after the last page.
The Conveyor Belt
A Mother’s Day reflection on the difference between being there and being present.
I sat in the grass on Mother’s Day while my kids climbed a tree and realized I wasn’t present at all. I was watching them the way you watch a pot of water — waiting for the next thing to happen so I could move us along to the next thing after that.
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Why Your Child’s Storybook Takes an Hour (and What It’s Competing With)
On the invisible queue your book is standing in, right behind a cancer drug and a guy making memes.
Your child’s bedtime story is standing in a line that stretches around the planet. The meme and the mammogram wait in the same queue. Here’s what’s actually happening behind that loading screen.
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The New Screen Time Rules Are Out. Here’s What They Don’t Say.
On guidelines, guilt, the hour drive to grandma’s house, and what balance actually looks like when you’re the one holding the iPad.
The AAP rewrote the rules on screen time this year. I read all of it. Then my 5-year-old had a meltdown at 5:47pm because his sock was "bumpy," and I handed him the iPad. We need to talk about this honestly.
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A Hammock of Cheese and Two Cavities: How a Storybook Gave Us a Language for the Hard Stuff
What happened when the book I built met real life in a dentist’s chair.
This morning I took my 6-year-old to get two cavities filled. Something happened on the way home that made me pull over in my head and think: this is why I built this thing.
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When Can Your Child Actually Feel What the Froggy Feels?
The surprisingly moving science behind when kids start to truly empathize with characters — and why it changes everything about the stories we choose.
My 4-year-old whispered “the froggy was brave” and I wondered: is the lesson actually landing? I went looking for real answers about when kids can truly step inside a character’s shoes. Some of it moved me more than I expected.
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Every Book Has a Cost. Here’s How I Think About Mine.
On paper, compute, full bookshelves, and trying to leave things better than I found them.
I want to talk about something that most children’s book companies don’t talk about, and that most AI companies definitely don’t talk about. Impact — the real kind. Not the kind you put on a slide deck.
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How I Decide Which Stories to Build (It Usually Starts with Dirty Hands)
The surprisingly unglamorous origin story behind every Enchantably template.
People sometimes ask me how I choose which stories to add to Enchantably. They’re expecting market research and spreadsheets. The real answer is that my 4-year-old came home last Tuesday, walked past the bathroom, wiped his hands on the couch, and announced he was hungry.
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Yes, These Books Are Made with AI. No, They’re Not Slop.
On the space between perfect and careless — and why that space might be the most human place of all.
Enchantably uses AI. The illustrations are AI-generated. The story frameworks are built with AI tools. If that sentence makes you want to close this tab, I understand — I’d like to ask you to stay for a few more minutes.
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The Year I Built Something That Made Me Come Alive
On what it actually costs to create something you love — and why I’d do every bit of it again.
A year ago this month, I opened a blank document and started building something that didn’t exist yet. I didn’t have a team, funding, or the technical know-how. I had two small boys and an idea I couldn’t stop thinking about.
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Four People Just Flew to the Moon. The Youngest Was 47.
On reaching for things you didn’t know were yours yet.
Two weeks ago, four astronauts flew around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years. Not one of them was alive when Apollo last made the trip. I keep coming back to their ages — and what it means for the rest of us still figuring out our next chapter.
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The Language of Bedtime
When the bookshelf in your language doesn’t reflect who you want your kids to become, you build the bookshelf yourself.
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from wanting to share your language with your children and having nothing good to read to them in it.
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Why Your Child Needs to Be the Hero of Their Own Story
The science — and the heart — behind that moment when they see their name on the page.
There’s this thing that happens when you read a story to a small child and their name shows up on the page. They stop wiggling. Their eyes get wide. It’s not just cute. Something clicks.
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The Case for the "Quiet Room"
Why We're Editing Our Kids' Spaces
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from a house full of things that beep. In 2026, many of us are realizing that a low-stim environment isn't just a design choice—it's a gift of mental clarity for our children.
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