This weekend my first-born son will graduate at age 20 with a B.A. in Biology. He will join thousands of other graduates across the country marching to the dais to accept his hard-earned degree from school officials dressed in the medieval cap and gowns we still wear for such occasions. And then he will march [...]
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America, land of the brain-damaged and debt-enslaved
Is it any surprise that we Americans treat animals and the natural world so badly, given the way we treat even our own cherished children? This week there were two grim news stories illustrating the callousness of American society towards its young adults. The first was a disturbing column by Nicholas Kristof revealing to the [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 26, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/america-land-of-the-brain-damaged-and-debt-enslaved/
More words for my son, a warrior for Good
My son read my last post and said that’s very nice, Mom, but it’s all about you! I thought you were going to write something nice about me, or give me some words of wisdom. As usual, he was right. I had actually sat down to write about him, but ended up getting so caught [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 2, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/more-words-for-my-son-a-warrior-for-good/
Ode to my firstborn, on his 20th birthday
Twenty years ago tonight I was going into labor with my firstborn son. I was 29 years old and had been married to his dad for four years. We were living in Manhattan, and the plan was to give birth at New York Hospital. When the labor pains started, around midnight, I felt an odd [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 1, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/ode-to-my-firstborn-on-his-20th-birthday/
Pleasure plus meaning equals happiness: homage to my mom
Yesterday I went to a Berkshire Festival of Women Writers workshop facilitated by psychologist and inspirational speaker Maria Sirois. The workshop was called “Happiness: Writing as a Path to Positive Transformation,” and since I am always looking for ways to link all those terms—happiness, writing, path, positive, transformation—I was eager to see how Maria would [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 5, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/pleasure-plus-meaning-equals-happiness-homage-to-my-mom/
There’s More to Love Than Cupid and his Arrows
One of the reasons I was unhappy in the last five years or so of my marriage—which lasted 21 years—was because my husband, who had been so apparently social and outgoing when I fell in love with him, had become taciturn and isolationist. He scorned Valentine’s Day as a commercial holiday, and considered buying me [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/theres-more-to-love-than-cupid-and-his-arrows/
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