About

Hello! Thank you for reading my blog! My name is Jeanna Lucci Canapari and I live in the Boston, Mass. area. I have a five-year-old boy, aka C, and a two-year-old boy, aka T. I have an English degree from Columbia, and before kids, I worked in health care communications in Boston. And before that, I worked in publishing in New York. Now I work as a consultant in health care communications from home, trading my desk for some clear kitchen counter space.

I love to write – I had an essay published in a collection once – view it here! But I found it tough after the boys were born. Now between work, and kitchen duty, and kindergarten pickup, I am trying to steal a little time to write – just five uninterrupted minutes is all I am looking for.

I write about all sorts of funny/poignant aspects of family life, digging back to my own childhood in an Italian family in Long Island, to watching my boys start to find their places in the world (which is done mainly, as far as I can tell, by wrestling and asking for snacks). I also write about what I watch on TV.

“Meatwad: But I thought you said TV was bad!
Frylock: Yeah, it is. But we f***ing need it.” (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

Here are a few posts of mine that you might want to check out:

• An Ode to the Dreamcrusher. This post was featured on Freshly Pressed! It was also a Staff Pick on Writer’s Bloq!
• A Beginner’s Guide to Anglophilia
• Richard Scarry and the Tiny World of Toddlers
• The Thunder-and-Lightning Brothers and the Battle of Good versus Evil
• Growing Up Italian in a Mac and Cheese World
• Siri, Wish Me a Happy Mother’s Day

I hope you will enjoy the blog and share your own experiences – hopefully you will. Or it could just end up being like “nothing but an old man in a tent, sitting in rags, playing hoopaloo with the wind.” Who knows?

Hoopaloo with the wind: The IT Crowd. (Photo credit: adambowie)