Items tagged parent

• Introverted like me

  Sorting out the mysterious ways in which one relates to others.

• All we like sheep

  Our attempts at self-preservation deny a larger reality.

• My son, Jacob

  A birthmother tells her story of sacrifice.

• Late night thoughts on what being a parent teaches about being God

  A parent of two following The One Rule learns a bit about the nature of the Parent of us all.

• We only see in part

  On the death of a close friend's father.

• In the difficult moment

  The mother of an infant girl struggles to stay in the present through crisis.

• Storytelling

  Thoughts from a writing teacher and father-to-be.

• Mother to mother

  Thoughts on shifting roles in the latter years of a parent’s life.

• I've become my mother

  A reflection on the super-humans we know as our parents.

• Inside seasons

  A review of Tamara Jenkins’ film The Savages.

• Defective connections

  Everyday things can surround us with the stories of our lives.

• Philosophy in the family

  A book review of Gum, Geckos and God: A Family's Adventure in Space, Time and Faith by James S. Spiegel.

• Femininity and the Big-Boned Gal

  Reflecting on identity via a mother's larger-than-life mythology.