As I’ve written about before, we’ve made it a point to teach out children that proper names for their anatomical parts. And while we emphasize that those parts are private and special, we don’t want to imply that they are secret or weird. Which sounds pretty boring and fairly easy until we are all in [...]
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When my children walk into the bathroom and watch me going through the feminine rituals of shaving and makeup, I wonder if I’ve let them down. If my conforming to these cultural ideals makes me a cog in the wheel of less than and not enough. Every time I suck in. Every time I look [...]
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I enjoy calling myself a feminist. I’m an easy believer in my daughter getting to do anything from dance to basketball. (Although I do catch myself thinking: What’s the point of sports? Women’s porfessional leagues suck. And then I realize that I’m assuming that my children will be the VERY BEST. Why can’t she just [...]
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My 15 month old daughter, N, picks up the baby doll we bought when my son was her age. I bought it in defiance of standards and expectations for boys. I bought it as proof that boys could nurture. I bought it so when his future partner remarks that he’s good with children I CAN [...]
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We are out dinner. (I’m on a cooking hiatus. Ask my empty refrigerator.) Next to our table is a trendy woman who is at least seventy (honestly, the entire restaurant is pushing seventy. It’s 5:30 p.m. in a Greek restaurant. Everyone outside is still digesting LUNCH.) She’s fashionable and wrinkly, which I admire. Until we [...]
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My neighbor is mowing her lawn over the weekend. A white Buick driven by an OLD MAN pulls up. He stops, rolls down the passenger side window and yells: YOUR HUSBAND SHOULD BE DOING THAT. She stops her mower, walks over to him and replies: This is his 40th birthday present. That seems to satisfy [...]
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