Privilege of Parenting

Please Receive Please Give

May 21, 2010

As much as I acknowledge and value my own feminine side, there are certain realms where I simply cannot tread, not in this incarnation as a man; one is labor and delivery, and the other is Sex and the City. That being said, and with all respect for the dark and unfathomable bonding that will […]

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Taking the BM out of Bar Mitzvah

May 19, 2010

On this, the last day of Momalon’s five-for-ten, Theme: Yes, I turn to a right of passage that I tried with all my heart and soul to say “no” to, but failed. Today marks the 36th anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah, that strange day when, as a little Jewish boy, I had to stand up […]

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“Yes!” Buby said, “Yes Dahlink!”

May 18, 2010

My Buby told me that she had been “quite a lively dancer,” when she was young. Even in her clunky chunky heels with a Darvon in her system she’d be game to step out onto a tennis court, or you’d find her planting fish-heads by some corn in our yard, “the way the Indian used […]

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The Postman Hardly Rang Once

May 17, 2010

Nearing the homestretch of Momalom’s five-for-ten challenge, the theme of lust knocks furtively upon Monday’s door… It was late in seventh grade when I was invited to my first “boy girl party.” I was thrilled to be included, but the murmuring rumors about what might happen there echoing along the green linoleum corridors of Lincoln […]

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Grapes of a Mom’s Wrath

May 16, 2010

As Momalom throws down the gauntlet on the theme of lust, my mind drifts back to a time of innocence on the cusp of carnal knowledge, a time before men were from Mars and women from Venus, a time when more than one or two languid high school afternoons were spent with my girlfriend, listening […]

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That time when my dad was wrong

May 15, 2010

I’m eleven years old and I am in flight, having just launched off the upper level of the Allstate parking lot—sailing with handlebars raised to a setting sun. This is the perfect wheelie jump, dropping a couple of feet over a four-foot wide strip of round stones to the lower level of the Allstate parking […]

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A tale of two camps

May 14, 2010

The summer camp that my parents sent me to was a well-respected and venerable institution in the north woods of Wisconsin. The summer camp I went to, at least in my mind, was something more akin to a Nazi concentration camp. As a grown-up I might like to spend some time amongst the pines, “roughing […]

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Happy to say “Hello, Again”

May 13, 2010

I realize that today marks the one year anniversary from when I first set up this blog and clicked “publish.” Looking back, it was May 13 of 2009 that I became “self-published.” I am toying with the idea of self-publishing my Privilege of Parenting book, and I now look back to see the organic nature […]

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