stereotypes Archive

  • Stuart, Swimming Upstream

    Two dumb things happened to Stuart this week. Exhibit A:   Stuart and Marin participated in a dance competition in Dallas (3+ hours away).   [Brent took the kids because I was out of town for the weekend having a wickedly fun all girls’ weekend. […]

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  • Papa, Watch me Fly!

    On Sunday nights, we gather all the piles of clean laundry into the living room and fold it while watching a movie. The kids were not amused by my choice last Sunday: “Yentl” (now stream-able on Netflix!). They don’t like to watch “old” movies and […]

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  • Sometimes it pays to be the squeaky wheel

    My son Stuart’s end-of-the-year dance recital was last Saturday night. He looked like a million bucks up there on stage and handled himself swimmingly when the dance moms and girls looked askance at him as one of only three boys in the dance studio.   […]

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  • “Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”

    “Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”   I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few times, I was speechless (which pretty much never happens to me). After those first few times, my canned response became: “Well . . . if […]

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