I’m sitting in a local Starbucks, and today’s Swing music mix (Dean Martin is crooning Volare, just before that was a song from Ella Fitzgerald’s Music and Moonlight), is just barely audible over the milk-steaming and repeat ordering patter at the counter. As I glance around, I feel like a sociologist discovering a new tribe.
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Starbucks Laptop Men
Posted in Books, Fathers, Masculinity, Men, Starbucks, Technology, Television on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First Bike Ride
Posted in Emotions/Inner World, Growing up, Reminiscences, Sons on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first time my son ventured onto concrete on his bike – after a long, arduous process of coaxing, cajoling, bribing, yelling – these from the adults – and whining and defiant refusal from him – he started to get it. He wobbled, straightened, wobbled, went so fast I had to let go of his […]
From the Mouths of Babes
Posted in Children, Growing up, Parenting, Sons, Wisdom on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My son is at the age where we have life lesson conversations in the car, en route to some activity. We’ve had some lovely discussions, and their brevity and the guarantee of having to end when we reach our destination lends a kind of safety – to both of us. These will not be marathon […]
Legacies
Posted in Beauty, Emotions/Inner World, Family, Mothers, Sons on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am the embodiment – literally – of those who came before me. I have my maternal grandfather’s face structure and nose, as do my mother and brother. My mother’s features don’t show much of her own mother, yet they clearly shared some of their build: short-waisted and thick around the middle. Waists (defined by […]