A Father’s Legacy Across Continents
… couldn’t hear me well, but he caught enough to know I was wishing him a happy Father’s Day. He let out this distinctive laugh—this triple laugh he does when …
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The Price of Prevention: Why I’m Paying My Children to Stay off Social Media I’d like you to imagine a scenario. A parent, out of deep love and concern, slips their teenage son or daughter a crisp $20 note at the end of each week—on one condition: no social networking. Now, I hear some of […]
Embracing the Unfamiliar: A Mindful and Critical Approach to New Experiences
(A father’s advice to his son who’s navigating resistance—particularly when it comes to so-called “chick stuff” like hot yoga.) 1. Recognize the Roots of Resistance My son, like many young men, sometimes rolls his eyes at activities he labels as “chick stuff.” When his girlfriend first invited him to hot yoga, his default response was, […]
The Boy Out of This Word
The Boy Out of This Word Prologue I own a little French picture book called La grande fabrique des mots—The Big Word Factory. From the moment I read it, I found myself wondering, How did that city come to be? It’s a place where people have to buy words just to say what they think or feel. That might […]
Suffering, Stoicism, and the Scrotum Incident
Suffering, Stoicism, and the Scrotum Incident So this is about suffering. And, more specifically, about my relationship to suffering, which has historically been one of avoidance, and which, paradoxically, has caused more suffering. Because that’s how suffering works, right? Like, it’s never the thing itself, the knife’s edge of pain, but the shadow it casts […]
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