I set the war room table for the arrival of a small temperamental tyrant — there are coveted colored pencils, various papers, favorite nourishing snacks. This dictator is actually a decent kid. He says please and thank you. Loves his grandparents. But homework agitates the tight ship of authoritarian lifestyle. After school time used to… Continue reading Homework: Not in the Parent Handbook
Author: Rocky
Your Unknown Value
What you do today matters in ways you could not possibly know. I believe The Gaia Principle (think butterfly wings affecting weather across the globe) applies to human social interactions. Each smile you give today, or angry word you mumble, is influencing not only your life but the lives of those to whom you give little… Continue reading Your Unknown Value
Having a Soul in Business
I never wanted to work in the business world. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, but professor, writer, bartender — all seemed more appealing than “Marketing Manager.” And yet, here I am, managing social media marketing projects (and loving my work, incidentally). So what was the fear anyway? Well, it still exists. I… Continue reading Having a Soul in Business
Thing Explainer Explained
This will host my upcoming review of Thing Explainer.
People Over 40 Don’t Do Resolutions
I am hard pressed to find anyone over age forty that makes New Year’s Resolutions. Or if we do, we mutter them quietly to ourselves in the shower on January first. I confirmed this suspicion recently at a NYE party with folks over 40 by asking if they did resolutions and getting repeated vague grumblings… Continue reading People Over 40 Don’t Do Resolutions
Teaching my Son about White Male Privilege
We were recently watching an old Family Guy episode where a human Brian from a parallel universe comes to live in our own. Since he was a “white” dog he was transformed into a “white” human and Stewie says, “Hey, You’re White! You have NO idea how BIG that is here.” Indeed. The work done… Continue reading Teaching my Son about White Male Privilege
Parent Thyself
I stood over my kid as he freaked about long division. He was tired, hungry and had already done this problem 50 times in the past, but his brain was hiccupping on this one step. He was insisting he’d done it this way all along and couldn’t understand why it no longer worked. As his… Continue reading Parent Thyself
Gender Bending Elementary Kid
Yeah, so my son just wore press on nails to school today. I wouldn’t be a mother and a blogger if I didn’t post about it. International Motherhood code = not wanting child to suffer at the hands of the world, or most immediately, other children. So when the boy child — LGBT, future glam… Continue reading Gender Bending Elementary Kid
You Don’t Always Have to Be Right
Said to me by Sage. We were not having an argument. He was encouraging and comforting me after I expressed regret and embarrassment about two risks I took this summer — the purchase of the dino A class RV (my doing, many assume Sages) and the purchase of a camp site at a place my son dislikes.… Continue reading You Don’t Always Have to Be Right
Aging Feminist
The older I get, the more of a feminist I become. Is it the continued experience of witnessing injustice? Seeing as how I just learned about Bride Burning or the debacle of the Hobby Lobby ruling, I wish this were the case. But no. I’m one of those “if it doesn’t affect me” types. So, now… Continue reading Aging Feminist