The topic of the lecture was to find the good in the unexpected, the benefit of having to veer off one course and, before plotting the next, experience the freedom of getting lost. To set out without knowing where one is going. To wander for 40 years, if need be, before making one’s way to […]
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Getting Lost
Posted in Children, Existential, Fear, Mothers, Parenting, Wisdom on September 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Instant Leo
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Camp, Marriage, Parenting, Romance, Young Love on June 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Summer is approaching, and with the exception of Club Med, the years of summer camp have passed for grown ups. My son hasn’t yet wanted to do overnight camp, my husband never went, so I’m the only one in the house who knows about summer camp. The joy of camp songs, bug juice, care packages, […]
Love Languages – A Throwdown
Posted in Children, Cooking/Food & Wine, Doctors, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Psychology, Relationships, Television on May 27, 2013 | 1 Comment »
“Do you know what your love language is?” the pediatric podiatrist asked my son. While the doctor tended to the tenacious wart at the bottom of my son’s foot, he patiently explained the basic tenets of Love Language theory. That there is one type of love that each person seems to want the most, […]
Sex Ed for Moms
Posted in Boys, Environmentalism, Growing up, Mothers, Political Correctness, School, Sexuality, Sons on April 30, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A few months ago, my son attended a two-part lecture for dads and sons about puberty. A funny yet informative lecture allowing giggles and laughter to smooth over plain old-fashioned information that normalizes puberty and soaks into the boys’ psyches. By the mere fact of attending, each young boy has been surreptitiously exposed to an […]
Lucky Bamboo
Posted in Children, Feng Shui, Growing up, Lucky Bamboo, Natural World, Parenting, Sons on April 2, 2013 | 3 Comments »
My son is beginning to make small acts of defiance. He’s late to the defiance game, judging by most other families of similar-age kids I’ve met over the years. He’s polite, hates to make mistakes, wants to start his homework even before grabbing an after-school snack. He wakes up on his own, goes to bed […]