Tag: children

• November 10, 2025

  Fact

  Please don’t ask me about my abuse. I wasn’t really there.
• August 18, 2025

  “The Snowflake Effect: How the Self-Esteem Movement Ruined a Generation”

  Just reading the contents page, I had the feeling this could be a good read and I wasn’t disappointed. In this punchy little book, Trey Willis makes logical, well-researched and largely convincing arguments for why his own Generation Y is essentially selfish, especially when compared to previous generations of North Americans. He looks at popular…
• July 9, 2025

  Oh, father! Where art thou?

  An excerpt from my first book (“The Remade Parent”) published at The Good Men Project “The American author and father Paul Theroux once said that the expression “Be a man!” strikes him as insulting and abusive. That it actually means: “Be stupid, be unfeeling, obedient and soldierly, and stop thinking. Manliness…is a hideous and crippling…
• January 5, 2025

  Singular two

  A recent poem of mine the baby at the edge of his change tablea leg lolling over the sidelimp wrist, fingers curledto lick and pullmemory is seeking formmind is seeking matterthen those fingers find rounded bumpsbut the tongue waitslike silence always waitsbreath at the hole it needspunctures she’s thereself contained unit of the childelbows are…
• August 22, 2024

  Short video of a short story: What’s it like being a piece of furniture?

  The boy ran his slim fingers along the chest of drawers. His eyes passed across the garish green lacquered wood. The world of things. He wanted to be this thing. To have objects put inside him, to stay there. The boy was entering a different world by being here with an adult thing like this.…