In my previous relationships, more than one partner on more than one occasion spat out the following emotional expletive at me: “Your feminism has ruined you!” I have explicitly self-identified as a feminist since my undergraduate days and enacted this feminism in my social … [Read more...] about A Feminist Valentine
Difficult Parenting Conversations: Death and Dying
The Scene: My three-year old daughter and I are at Grandma H’s viewing where I racked up parenting fail #315, because I did not want to talk about death with my kid. The Kid: Who is that? (She asks after spotting the casket at the front of the room in which a coiffed and … [Read more...] about Difficult Parenting Conversations: Death and Dying