Virtual reality. It’s all fun and games until you run full speed Into an ottoman. My latest, for The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

After all the praise and laughter I received for The Dancing Egg, I decided to start another blog. Enter "The Happy Homemaker." Post #1: the-happy-homemaker.com/2024/07/19/the…

My most recent installment of The Happy Homemaker, a blog about a post-menopausal mom and a wife in suburbia, in these strange times. Water's Song the-happy-homemaker.com/2024/08/11/wat…

I'm happy to report that my article, "After Child’s Suicide, Parents Can Be Engulfed in Self-Blame and Guilt,” in The Washington Post was a co-winner in the Health category of the ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors' annual writing awards. wapo.st/3WOR038

My latest blog post on The Happy Homemaker The House Across the Street the-happy-homemaker.com/2024/08/31/the…

The latest episode of The Happy Homemaker: wordpress.com/post/the-happy…

I've started a substack! It's called Suburban Diary, vignettes from New Jersey, Long island, Westchester, and that little bit of Connecticut that prefers the Yankees to the Red Sox. I plan on publishing about twice a week. Onward! open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

What does 100 look like? I spent some time with Frida Mae, who is months away. My latest post, on Suburban Diary The Starlet open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

The latest installment of Suburban Diary. The Complex Pool open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

I missed The Grateful Dead. The whole era. So I went to see Dark Star, the premiere Grateful Dead cover band. Hear about it in my latest installment of Suburban Diary The Darkest Star open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

Look good? Almost as tasty as the latest installment of Suburban Diary Clam Pie open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

The joy -- and the misery -- of train travel. I invite you to read the latest installment of Suburban Diary. open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

My mother is not as mobile as she used to be, so I took her to visit her childhood stomping ground on Long Island, via FaceTime. There's more than one way to travel. I invite you to read the latest installment of Suburban Diary. carenchesler933843.substack.com/p/lawrence-of-…

There are lots of instructions about what to do and say at a Passover Seder. They must have skipped the part about, "What if your son refuses to go?" Please read my latest installment of Suburban Diary. Pass-Over open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

Nothing says more about who we are than how we drive. That is, if I’d driven in a car with my husband before we started dating, we wouldn’t have gotten very far. Please read my latest installment of Suburban Diary. carenchesler933843.substack.com/p/driving-me-c…

When life takes an unexpected pivot... My latest installment of Suburban Diary. carenchesler933843.substack.com/p/where-the-co…

How do we hold trauma? Do we observe it, plum it for all the lessons, thank it and then move on? No chance. We hold on to it with a vice-like grip until it defines us. My latest installment of Suburban Diary. Memorial Day open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

Lions and Tigers and Ticks, oh my! My latest installment of Suburban Diary Rocky Mountain High Fever open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

Sharing is for the birds! My latest installment of Suburban Diary. On Blueberry Hill open.substack.com/pub/carenchesl…

Some people are born performers, and no matter where they are, they wind up with a microphone in their hand. That would be my cousin, Morrie, one of the last of the old time Tummlers. Read about him in the latest installment of Suburban Diary. carenchesler933843.substack.com/p/the-tummler