I overhead this two checkout lanes away at the grocery store. I think he was talking about cigars. But it could have been cigarettes. Could have been pot, although as yet we can’t by pot at the grocery store. Give it time, give it time.
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I only smoke ’em when The Wife’s away.
Posted in Husbands, Marriage, Wives on August 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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 […]
p < .05 (aka, Searching for Significance)
Posted in Education, Existential, Motherhood, Mothers, Natural World, Ocean, Photos, Science, Sons on April 24, 2013 | 1 Comment »
“Maybe you ought to keep going, find something else to write about. Not a lot of people will know what that is,” said my husband, in response to hearing the title I was proposing for this piece. He might have been embarrassed that he didn’t remember this from his statistics class, but I’ve vowed not […]
The Mists of Asphalt
Posted in Aging, Books, Emotions/Inner World, Fantasies, Girls, Grandparents, Women on October 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I think I saw a faerie the other day. I wasn’t expecting to, but no one sees faeries by setting out to do so. First I saw only her car: boxy and angular, the white exterior paint dulled slightly with age. A regal anomaly among the sleek, smooth, rounded vehicles that dominate the road. My […]
On Women Getting Shorter
Posted in Aging, Boys, Growing up, Men, Mothers, School, Sons on September 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I get that I’m not a tall woman, but I don’t think of myself as short. “My legs reach all the way to the ground,” I can be heard saying. I have accepted my height, that many women are taller than me, and that I seem to have sufficient height to do anything I need […]