My long, didactic journey is coming to an end. My two-stage Odyssey through the teen years - once with a daughter, and my final phase with a son - is almost done. I’ve taken on the Herculean task, the Holy Grail pilgrimage toward adulthood with my burgeoning charges. Navigating through minde fields of pubescent angst, … Continue reading Changeling hex is broken
Tag: teens
Screwed
Contemptuous sighs and lethal stink-eyes Silent treatments that last for days Their digits double, omnipotent Our IQs fail by half, dotage Teen years, an exhausting level Of parenting purgatory Still, I survive
Body snatchers
While out photoging today, I had an epiphany. I read about the trials my online friends have with their teens, and empathize with their troubles with moody kids. I have wonderful, loving relationships with both my kids, but when they were younger teens, it wasn't always that way. For a few years, early high school … Continue reading Body snatchers
Project car
A boy and his car It is a thing of beauty Hopefully it runs My son got his first project car, a 1990 Plymouth Laser, in 2009. It was three years older than he was at the time. Over the next couple of years, he installed a new transmission, and an after-market body kit and … Continue reading Project car
A slip of the tongue
I took The Boy into town this week to buy a pair of skate shoes. The Hellboy cat has this annoying habit of sitting in people's shoes and peeing. His latest impromptu litter box belonged to his Boy. My presence was requested on this shopping trip because I'm easier than his dad to talk into … Continue reading A slip of the tongue
Survival kit
I'm finally getting an opportunity to visit my daughter in her adopted state, and am headed out soon on a long road trip. Driving from Florida to North Caroline, in one day, is not something to attempt unprepared. Granted, there are three licensed drivers in our car, so dividing up the trip into three, four-hour … Continue reading Survival kit
Thin spiral notebook 