We thought he wasn’t sleeping because he was excited. We were all excited. The limousine was arriving at 8 am to whisk us away to the airport for Edward’s Make-a-Wish trip to New York City. So we were excited. But as he lay in the bed next to me at 3 am, not sleeping, I could […]
Category Archives: Iron Man
The Future Just Ain’t What it Used to Be
Be Careful What You Blog About… I typed into Facebook on Saturday as I sat in the urgent care clinic waiting for my son to have his head stapled back together. The last post I had written espoused a theory that you should not tell your children about the fun things you had planned ahead […]
The Difference Between a Storyteller and a Character: on Joss Whedon, Age of Ultron, and the Problem with Twitter
Joss Whedon quit Twitter a few days ago. He hasn’t said exactly why, but I think we can all use some educated guessing and rampant speculation to assume that it is because everyone on Twitter was shouting at him. You see, there are some people very angry about his new movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron. They […]
Violence is Easy, Sex is Hard
In the years before I had children, and even for much of the past seven years of parenting, I have loudly and indignantly declared to anyone who would listen that I would much rather show my children sex than violence. I pretentiously and self-righteously condemned our culture of guns and machismo, wondering at great volume […]