Back when I was (more) awkward about relationships and sexuality, back at the time when I was, perhaps it’s more accurate to say, first awkward about relationships and sexuality, there was Truth or Dare. Answer a sadistic question designed to reveal your most private insecurities, inexperience, and unrequited crushes; or, preserve your tattered and inadequate […]
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Truth or Dare
Posted in Love, Marriage, Personal Growth, Relationships, Reminiscences, Young Love, Youth on January 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Chevy Van
Posted in Music, Reminiscences, Young Love on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I parked next to a battered blue van today, and when the “Chevy Van” lettering on its passenger side came into view, it was like someone had released the “Pause” button and the song resumed. I was immediately transported to the 13-year-old I was in 1975, engulfed in emotions, longings, and body sway, lost in […]
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 […]
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?
Carpool Life Lesson (Not Very "PC")
Posted in Parenting, Political Correctness, The Genders, Young Love on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight was my turn to drive car pool. We drive with the same “older” girl whose father drives the convertible red Cadillac. When we went to pick her up, she wasn’t quite ready – she needed to find her shoes, comb her hair, grab a car snack, pick a jacket, track down her book. Her […]