Been on a bit of Jesus thing lately. Thinking about religion, considering the role it plays in our understandings of the world, its function as an ethical code, a yearning for something more, a mark of community boundaries and so on. And generally considering the importance that religious symbols and religious communities have had at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
Religiously-Speaking
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Community, Family, Identity, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growing Up
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Childhood, Family, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lots of babies being born these days. Over the past six weeks or so, no less than seven people I know have had or are due to have brand-new gorgeous babies to welcome to the world. And that’s exciting to me, cause I love babies and I love to see new parents celebrate and find [...]
Relations of Class(rooms)
Posted in Family, tagged Parenting, Personal on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter is in her last years of elementary school, moving on to high school next year, a transition which brings with it much excitement and anticipation, and also a good deal of trepidation. Is she ready? What will her teen years bring? How the hell do I parent a teenager? What will all that [...]
Appreciating, Anticipating
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Parenting, Personal, Relationships on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am writing now, for the first time, with a pair of reading glasses across the bridge of my nose – not the result of the slowly-diminishing eyesight one expects at this age, but surgery on some crazy early cataracts I developed. My eyes generally had worked fine, but as the cataracts grew over , [...]
What Little Girls Are Made Of
Posted in Family, tagged Family, Parenting on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s December 18, and my little girl is 11 years old today. As I write this, I have just laid out all the newly-wrapped presents, called to sing to her – and woken up her mom in the process – and I wait to head out in the ice and snow to Burnaby Mountain for [...]
A Not-So-Little Girl
Posted in Family, tagged Family, Parenting on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another school year. Grade six. How the fuck that happened, I don’t know. Certainly doesn’t feel like I’m any older, but all of a sudden here I am with a kid who’s moving past childhood to pre-adolescence. Scary. On the other hand, it’s looking like Mica’s finally got just a solid, good teacher – something [...]
Shifting Gears
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Family, Parenting, Personal on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, I was supposed to be amid 10,000 denim- and leather-clad headbangers, screaming, singing, and generally rocking out with Rob Halford, icon of queerdom in heavy metal, and his bandmates, icons of metal more generally. Judas Priest. Alas, it was not to be. With my ex moving out last week, and me moving upstairs next, and [...]
Little People
Posted in Family, Political Stuff, tagged Family, Parenting on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, as I walked home from school with my daughter, Mica, she told me that her class had spent part of the day on strike. They made signs, they walked out, they petitioned the teacher. Well, as we got into the substance of the issues, my sympathies vanished pretty quickly – essentially [...]
Dad Day
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Family, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I try to be a good dad most of the time. And sometimes I think I do a pretty decent job by comparison, until I remember how low a standard that is, given the only-slowly-changing expectations of fathers in this society. But I always know that I can do better. Mica and I were very [...]
Collaborative Divorce, Day 2
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Divorce, Family, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another session with the mediator, and things are progressing very, very well. Earlier this week my ex and I met to exchange financial information, ask questions etc. And that was a bit difficult – got intertwined with emotional stuff, different expectations in terms of how much detail we should bring, the process to follow etc. [...]
