Raising sons can be quite the challenge. We have to sort through the toxic societal aspects of what it means to be male. Then we have to learn how to access the positive aspects of masculinity. Admittedly for myself this was difficult because I had a mother and three older sisters who, while embracing the […]
Challenging Perceptions
I have often found myself to be 50+ years ahead of my time. On the one hand I feel like I am more suited to a steampunk environment, but on the other hand I feel like a character in some futuristic space aged movie. This may be due to the fact that I am an […]
Something from Nothing
My grandmother used to say, “You can do anything you want with your life…or you can do nothing with it.” There have been numerous times in my life when I have felt that I am doing nothing with it. I think that this is because we live in a world that acknowledges only parts of […]
“Toxic Masculinity”
This is not going to be what you think it will be about. Not entirely anyway. You see, I do indeed recognise that there is a thing called “toxic masculinity”. But I also recognise that there is a thing called “toxic femininity”. Both are equally destructive. Recently I had a mother and teenage son in […]
Contributions and Expectations
When I was a kid I had severe allergies. This was at a time before allergies were common knowledge (yes…I am that old). Some were to food, but the most deadly ones at the time were to grain dust. Now, growing up in rural Saskatchewan, one would think that you would build up a resistance […]