About Me:

I’m Carrie. I love books, pop culture, traveling, anything heavily coated in fake cheese powder, and lounging about in decadent solitude (or, at least, I’m certain I used to). I’m a college counselor, a former English teacher, and a mom of three kids, and I live with my family in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.

About Extra Credit: 

I write this newsletter for parents who want to (mostly) enjoy family life, manage (or at least laugh about) the hard parts, and relish their non-parenting selves and interests. It will arrive in your inbox once a week, on Tuesdays, sometime between “running out the door in a frenzy, ten minutes late, having forgotten at least two critical items”-o’clock and “accidentally falling asleep alongside your preschooler while curled up in their twin bed”-thirty. I hope that when you read it, you’ll think “oh, same,” at least once, feel a little more confident that things are going to be okay, or discover something you love. 

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College counselor, English teacher, and mom of 3 parenting and writing in upstate New York.