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Faerie Dust
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Emotions/Inner World, Parenting on May 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Skimming Stones
Posted in Beaches/Tides, Fathers, Masculinity, Parenting, Relationships, Sons on June 25, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“What are your thoughts?” asked the husband to the wife. “Hmmmmmm,” murmured the wife, stalling for time.
From Generation to Generation
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Anger, Growing up, Parenting on January 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
We hand things down, we humans. Genes, mannerisms, susceptibility to illness and disease, perhaps a family heirloom, perhaps a bit of an estate, perhaps the clutter of accumulated objects. Lessons. Heritage can be visible or hidden; gifts intentional or not; narratives oft-told or silent. It doesn’t matter what we believe we do; we hand just […]
“I don’t mean to offend, but I’ve read that people your age are really stressed.”
Posted in College, Emotions/Inner World, Growing up, Parenting, Stress on December 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The trio at the table next to me at the pub were of indeterminate but comparable youth. At least they seemed so to me. Until one woman recounted a litany of physical complaints and ailments that the doctor kept telling her were stress-related. She just needed to relax. Go home for Thanksgiving, she was told. […]
The Search for my Biological Parents
Posted in Aging, Family, Isolation/Belonging, Parenting on November 6, 2013 | 1 Comment »
As a child, I fantasized that my real parents would search me out. Some days, the only possible explanation for the ever-widening gulf between me and the rest of my family, and the sheer impossibility that I could share any genetic material with the boy I was told is my brother, was that I’d been […]