Dear Bus Boyfriend (can I call you BB, babe?)…Today is our anniversary. I’ll forgive you for forgetting it, if only because you have no idea who I am. Just so we don’t have this awkward exchange on our next anniversary, let me jog your memory: I’m the frizzy-haired brunette who gets on the bus a few stops after you in the morning.
Archives for June 2010
Back to Work: The Gong Show
A mom trying to balance work and raising two little boys feels like she’s on a hamster wheel.
Stirring Up The Dust — A Memoir for Father’s Day
While cleaning out his garage a son finds his father’s obituary, which takes him back to the tragic circumstances of his dad’s death and stirs up the past.
Raising Respectful Sons: A Father’s Reaction to the “Slampigs” Scandal
Mike Sakasegawa comments on the recent scandal at the Landon School — where a group of freshman boys drafted unsuspecting girls into participating into a sex for points contest — and ponders the question of how to raise our sons right.
Men Leave: Father’s Day Without a Father
On Father’s Day, a woman contemplates the fathers she has known and never known, and how she came to the conclusion that men leave.
Putting Death and Life in Perspective
“Any man’s death diminishes me,” he once intoned, quoting Donne, “because I am involved in mankind.” It made me sad enough to cry, but I didn’t. Instead, I considered how the recent death of a friend had wounded me like a splinter, one that I could not remove. The more I fussed to pull at it, the deeper it settled in my skin and the more irritated the flesh around it grew.
My Father’s Day Gift
I’ve never disliked Irishmen. In fact, being a born Newfoundlander, the lilting accent and ruddy-faced smiles of Dublin make me feel more at home than I usually do on the North American mainland. There is one Irishman, however, towards whom I’ve recently developed a decided antipathy. His name is Murphy. You know, the one whose […]
Celebrating Single-Parent Mothers on Father’s Day
Today our society is filled with many single-parent households, many of which are headed by women. Do they make single-parent Father’s Day cards for mothers?
Something to Remember Me By
Special occasions like Mother’s and Father’s Day usually went by with very little fanfare at our house. Choosing gifts for one another was not my parent’s forte. Mum gave Dad his fair share of socks and ties for Father’s Day, and while other ladies we knew received pearl earrings or flowers and chocolates on birthdays and anniversaries, Dad would present Mum with a coffee percolator or an electric can opener…
A Sacred Time
On a tranquil summer’s evening at Peach Lake, Star Weiss and her father set out in a canoe and the daughter learns things about her father’s life she never knew.
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