The Journal

The dustpan was in my hand before I was through the door. He looked up and said, mind the soup. On the minute before a parent says no.

These mats start indoors and end up outside. They get bought for changing mats, kitchen tables and spills, and then one day one of them goes in the bag for the park. Outside is where people are most surprised by...

The short version: a fold crease and a curled edge look similar on day one and are not the same problem. A crease runs across the middle in straight lines, arrives with the packaging, and fades with use. A curl...

Customers kept asking whether the mats contain PFAS. So I went after the laboratory reports behind the certificate. More than 30 individual PFAS compounds, two years of testing, none ever detected.

The tension isn't indoors versus outdoors. It's places built around consuming versus places for just being. I'm writing this from a little beach by a river in Ticino. The kids are building a sand construction. I just went for a...

The first birthday is a strange celebration. The birthday child will remember none of it. They are probably more interested in the wrapping paper than in the present. And still there you are, three weeks beforehand, scrolling through lists of...

I scored my own website the way a stranger would, against the lighthouses of my category. It came back 59 out of 100, and the thing at the bottom of it wasn't what I expected. This week I did something...

I have almost no specific memories of those early childhood years. What I remember is the shape of the days, and how much better every one of them went once we got outside.