Parenting Archive
18 Jul 2011
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~Aristotle
I received an email the other day from a new reader of this blog. With her permission, I am reproducing it here, with my answers / responses interspersed. Please, feel free to add your input in the comments. Thank you so much for your blog-I appreciate your honesty and the way you advocate for Pearlsky.
24 Jun 2011
“The first duty of love is to listen.” ~Paul Tillich
So when did you stop listening all night? As you may remember, I have been traveling. Nothing special happened, other than this of course. A somewhat new nanny stayed over with Pearlsky one of the nights. She has worked with the disabled before, but as I am known to point out, there is a real
18 Jun 2011
“Happy Father’s Day” ~!Pearlsky
This Father’s Day is certainly different. It is the first ever, in the history of Single Dad, that he has no one to call. Bummer. She of LoveThatMax has put up this post about fathers with disabled kids and why, in their (our) own words we “rock.” If you have always wanted to know …
15 Jun 2011
All it takes is one testicle, and, on average, we each have one.
Generate one sperm and wham! yes, you can be a father. But can you be a dad? For all intents and purposes I am both mother and father to Pearlsky and I’m good with that. It is unfortunate, and ultimately she loses (both “she”s … Pearlsky and her mom). But I digress. Being Pearlsky’s dad
21 Apr 2011
“I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.” ~Groucho Marx
I have been in touch with Aria’s mom and dad, and they are all home and doing ok. Remembering the first six months with Pearlsky (the first six with David were, unfortunately, old-hat) I can say … I did not cry once I did not ask “why” once I did not curse a god once I did
19 Apr 2011
“I’ve always been mad about cats.” ~Vivien Leigh
So I hope you have read the background, here. Pearlsky’s mom moves out, takes David, gets a boyfriend, he moves in and then he brings in a cat. Pearlsky is severely allergic to cats. Got the picture? David’s birthday, father’s day, whatever, to get the kids together, we go over to her house and hang
11 Apr 2011
Follow up to previous post …
In the last post I shared both the form I needed to fill out for Pearlsky and some thoughts on it. To be clear, I fully understand the reasons behind the form, the intent and such, and it did not upset me, but it was a bit depressing in its “in your face” way. And,
02 Apr 2011
Hot date
I went to the big city symphony today. Brought along a hot date. Jealous? You should be.