Here’s a Christmas-Eve essay by the Coconut Girl, appearing in The Louisville Courier Journal today. It’s an homage to my dear friend and fellow Coconut Girl, Mary Esselman Roberts. She and I often joke that we’re the Lucy and Ethel of motherhood. We both originally hail from Louisville and met by coincidence in Virginia, where we both now live. Mary, together with my friends Erin Hanusa, Dahlia Lithwick, and husband Joe Rinkevich, gave me the encouragement and technical know-how to start the Coconut Girl blog. I owe them a debt of gratitude.
