This post is Part 2 of a series exploring partnership and independence on the highways of America. You can read Part 1 here. The trailhead of my existence is much different than my current self. That’s a fact. For the last 15 years of my life, I’ve lived in some big, fancy-pants cities, full of […]
I had a conversation this week with a mom who told me that her 13-year-old daughter was sick and would need a daylong series of tests to figure out what was wrong. The story came up because she scheduled the test on a day when her husband (and father of her daughter) couldn’t make it. […]
This post is part 1 of a series exploring partnership and independence on the highways of America. It was somewhere on the Loneliest Road in America, U.S. Route 50 in the middle of Nevada, when I took off my wedding ring. I thought about it, and then I did it. Oddly, it was that simple. […]
I’m someone who has spent much of her life thinking about and observing gender differences. Growing up in a clear patriarchy, I was very aware that women seemed to have few choices and little influence. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that I spent most of my career over the last two plus decades focused on […]
One of the most frequently asked questions right after I tell a person that I’m a stay-at-home dad is “So what do the two of you do all day?” I never know how to answer because there really isn’t one simple answer. There is also never one typical day. Sure we do similar things each […]
Look up the word “househusband” in the dictionary and you’ll find “A married man who manages the household as his main occupation and whose wife usually earns the family income.” Good enough. But the role behind that word is foreign to most men (whether it’s due to nature or nurture I will leave to the experts). I […]
Men’s cheating and sexual acting-out may be less about women and more about seeking status from other men. Marie Claire ran a story last Wednesday called “The Truth About Bachelor Parties.” It opens, as you might expect, with an anecdote about a groom going to a strip club with his friends and family members (including some […]
Combine insecurity with abundant opportunity, the prevailing wisdom goes, and every man’s a cheater … right? For the past two weeks, every day has brought a new article analyzing the seemingly perennial question of why men cheat. The sad saga of Anthony Weiner serves as the latest catalyst for all this punditry. Blame it on […]
When do you start to feel like a father? For Brian Gresko, it was during a solo visit to the NICU after a traumatic delivery. In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus tries to convince Neo that he has the power to manipulate the “reality” of their computer-simulated world. “There’s a difference between knowing the path and […]
This week, the press is abuzz with the news of the latest celebrity wedding, in which a beautiful commoner comes into the spotlight to marry a charming man from a large, powerful family. I’m talking, of course, about Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, the main characters in this fall’s new Twilight film, Breaking Dawn. Although […]
“I am so bored with that question,” the woman told my wife, M, who had just asked her how they structured their family life so that she could go back to school with three kids. M wanted to know, What was their model? “We used to talk about that all the time,” the woman added. […]
Have you heard? Kim Kardashian is apparently the First Woman To Ever Get Married, or so you might think from all the media coverage of the recently-engaged star. Kim Kardashian is a brand unto herself, making thousands of dollars in appearance fees and loaning her image to products such as Skechers Shape-Ups and various diet […]
