Graphic of text reading, “Your daughter will be so much fiercer and smarter than you were at her age and she will be wicked funny and moody as hell and it will remind you of you when you were young. You are going to want to protect her but also let her fly. She will test you for sure. And someday if you’re really lucky she is going to be your very dearest friend.” By instagram poster Never Empty Nest.

And now the tiger girl is 15 years old. #adventureswiththetigergirl #thisis15

Cover of the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butlers, featuring a drawing of a black woman in a red dress against an ivory background.

Her English teacher saw the tiger girl had finished Handmaid’s Tale, and loaned her his copy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. She is on a roll! #adventureswiththetigergirl #thingsthatmakemehappy #booklove

Cover of the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, featuring a woman in a long red dress with an old-fashioned white bonnet hiding her face.

The tiger girl just finished Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I asked her what she thought of it. “I wanted more.” More what? “More information. Where did the social security numbers go? What happened to all that data? What happened?!” #adventureswiththetigergirl #booklove

Large yellow grapefruit in a basket against green tile.

2/2 Looking for the bright side in wind and fire ravaged So Cal: And the tiger girl being home from school today, I put her to work harvesting grapefruit. Enough to share with the neighbors. Little bits of kindness go a long way, especially right now. #adventureswiththetigergirl #bekind