“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” -Ed Prentiss, 1965, Days of Our Lives Friday was Professional Development day at my son’s school, meaning the entire public school population was turned loose upon the city. Working and nonworking parents alike had their little ones back for a day. Middle […]
Archive for the ‘Masculinity’ Category
Hourglass
Posted in Aging, Boys, Friendship, Natural World, Parenting on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Gender Gap
Posted in Emotions/Inner World, Men, Mothers, Sons, The Genders, Women on September 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have taken great pride in understanding my son. I’ve understood his cries since birth, his different facial expressions for sadness, anger, happiness, excitement. The way frustration goes straight to wide-eyed tearfulness and reddened cheeks, rather than the more typical route to outward outrage. I know the foods he loves, the ones he avoids, and […]
The Matinee
Posted in Aging, Masculinity, Motherhood, Sons, Theater, Young Love on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s summer: the time of baseball games, waterskiing, overnight camping, barbeques, boating and swimming and biking and . . . outdoor musicals. Brigadoon was on this year’s docket at our local theatre-in-the-forest. I’ve always like this story of a perfect place lost in the mists but for one day every hundred years. The promise of […]
Lancelot is Growing Up
Posted in Growing up, Motherhood, Sons on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At times, my 10-year-old seems quite grown up, with opinions and ideas about how the world works that are sophisticated and have an internal logic, even if they don’t always match facts that he hasn’t yet encountered about the world. At other times, he still responds as the young boy he is. He is both, […]
Reason #142 Why I Love My Husband
Posted in Country Music, Emotions/Inner World, Husbands, Marriage, Music on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He tears up at the same country music lyrics that I do.