I will admit that I am not a big fan of mystical/New Age/Woo-woo stuff. I have, at various times in my life, suspended my disbelief long enough to check out aromatherapy, I Ching, herbal medicine, Tarot cards, flower remedies and Deepak Chopra’s ideas about eating according to ones body type. I did like yoga, and [...]
Archive for the 'motherhood' Category
Fung-Shwa
January 6, 2009
Morals and Basketball
December 5, 2007
The children of attentive parents receive moral instruction early and often. Whether the context is religious or secular, conservative or liberal, a firm grounding in right and wrong is the first step in growing humans who give to charity and return lost wallets. We started Sam with simple lessons: it is wrong to take other [...]
On Compassion
November 15, 2007
”Compassion is the basis of morality.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
About a week ago, our local paper ran a story about a 33-year-old woman who had just given birth to premature triplets, and was jobless, in debt, and living in a shelter. She was trained as a medical transcriptionist, and had worked, but lost her job and her [...]
On Stress
November 12, 2007
A while back, I drove into a woman backing out of her driveway. I apologized profusely, went home, cried, and later paid for the $937.00 worth of repairs. I confess that I was totally distracted at the moment of impact; I had not slept well, I had a toothache, and I [...]
On The Telephone
October 18, 2007
I am not a fan of the “connected” lifestyle. In the same way that I feel perfectly justified in lying on the living room floor until the girl selling magazines stops ringing the doorbell and gets off my porch, I feel that I am permitted to choose whether or not to answer the house phone [...]
True Colors
October 8, 2007
Since I was twelve or thirteen, I have been taking quizzes to find out who I really am. When I started, these questionnaires often appeared across from ads for “Love’s Fresh Lemon,” and promised to tell me whether I was “Date Bait or Total Turnoff” based on answers about [...]