Herewith, some notes on gender and parenthood, by way of organizing some thoughts and soliciting dialog in advance of a panel I’ll be speaking on. These notes also provide attendees a place to which to be able to trace various threads, should they like, or carry on the conversation we
I am thinking about my sister today. This February, three days before her eldest son’s birthday, it’ll mark three years that my sister’s and my relationship transformed fundamentally. Estrangement: not of my choosing, but neither could I prevent or remedy it; as such things likely are, the causes are
Leveled, like so many. Staring at my children, whose age range is precisely that of most of the child victims of the mass shooting at the Newtown, CT school earlier today. Breath knocked out, and here I am at the other side of the country, with two living children.