I grew up doing things like a girl. I threw like a girl, ran like a girl, cried like a girl, and in my teenage years I slammed doors, waited by the phone, and pined after unrequited crushes – just like a girl.
Archive for the ‘Masculinity’ Category
Shadow Boxing
Posted in Boys, Emotions/Inner World, Growing up, The Genders on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Double Digits
Posted in Boys, Children, Growing up, Mothers, Parenting, Sons on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My son is now 10, and inching closer to his “tweens” – a word that didn’t exist to describe my own years between childhood and adolescence. Does that mean I didn’t experience my own tweens or simply that no one recognized the unique development conflicts in the years of burgeoning independence and dependency? If […]
Little Lancelot
Posted in Boys, Emotions/Inner World, Men, Parenting, Sons, Young Love on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How, oh how, to grow a boy?
More pie, please
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Family, Husbands, Reminiscences, Travel on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I was waxing nostalgic about lemon meringue pies. I had made some cookies and for the first time used lemon curd as a filling rather than jam, and the flavor sent me right back to family road trips for lemon meringue pie. Fried perch and then lemon meringue pie, to be exact. […]
Pearl of Wisdom from a Mom I Know
Posted in Children, Friendship, Mothers, Sons, Wisdom on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My son has a friend he met two summers ago at a week-long summer camp. Our families live on opposite sides of town, their house perched at the edge not only of our city but seemingly the edge of the continent, looking out over a span of water that feeds into the Pacific Ocean. The […]