I’ve been accused of making up things for this column. But who’d admit to being so foolish?
n the nearly five years I’ve been writing this column, I’ve sometimes been accused of making up the more alarming things that have happened to me. This is not the case, as many of my more incident-free columns should sadly prove. ‘Please,’ I say to family and friends, damning myself with every word, ‘if I made stuff up, my column would be a lot more exciting.’
It’s just that when something unlikely or horrifying does happen to me, I jump at it with both hands. The sad, obvious truth about parenting is that much of it is very boring. The sad, obvious truth about writing about parenting is that ‘much of it is very boring’ will not suffice. Knowing this cannot remedy the fact that there are simply weeks in which nothing of any interest happens to me at all, and I’m forced to tackle things from whatever angle I can.
So, please take to heart what I say next.
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