I have recently experienced my ex-spouse, my friends, the husbands of my friends, essentially many of the men I know who are in their forties (not all of them, of course, but too many to ignore), express a wistfulness, a nostalgia for a fictional freedom. The kind where you don’t have to let your partnerContinue reading “Midlife Crisis, Part 1: On Freedom and its MidLife Mythology”
Monthly Archives: January 2017
New Year’s Resolution #1: Boycotting the Monkey Exchange
My motto for this coming year: Not my circus, not my monkeys. There is nothing we humans like more than to surreptitiously gift our monkeys to someone, and taking on other people’s monkeys can become second nature if we don’t watch out. The problem with monkey gifting is that it affects our circus ecosystems. WeContinue reading “New Year’s Resolution #1: Boycotting the Monkey Exchange”
In Honour of Divorce Month: Mid-Life Crisis, an Introduction
We are in the middle of our life. We have kids and teenagers and parents who are getting older. We have jobs. Houses. Responsibilities. It is our generation that is keeping the world running right now, the ones still young and strong enough to bear the brunt of the work and responsibility yet old enoughContinue reading “In Honour of Divorce Month: Mid-Life Crisis, an Introduction”
Hopeful: How to Survive the Collective Malaise
I had the privilege of meeting a woman this year who had been kicked out of her home in Poland after the war by the Russians and sent to Siberia to work. She told me of the horror she experienced there: the harsh winters, the gnawing hunger, the constant fear of the guards. Of sewing secretsContinue reading “Hopeful: How to Survive the Collective Malaise”
Lina Branter 