by Lisa-Jo | Sep 21, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
It’s used in condescension. The name for sissies and weaklings who haven’t outgrown their mother’s skirts. It resents the boy that clings longer, harder, tighter than he should. It is a label, sticky and hard to peel off. But sometimes the boy is...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 2, 2010 | Faith, Motherhood, South Africa
My father sat in the pew of a church in Philadelphia with a slip of paper in his hands. The cold encamped outside was a far cry from the mosquito hot shores of South Africa. Three years. He had brought his young family Stateside for three years to add a Masters of...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 26, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
Click on the link below (twice) to download and listen to an audio recording of me reading today’s post. Once it’s loaded you can come back to this page to read along. My Zululand; My Birthday Under the boughs of the mango groves in the heat of the hot,...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 9, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys
There’s a question I keep turning over and over in my mind. For weeks now I have held it in my hands. I flip it over, I turn it this way and that, I rub away at its edges. I feel it growing smoother and more well worn with time. Like the pebble stuck in a shoe. It is...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 19, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood, South Africa
Hey Mom, Has it really been 17 years? You won’t believe all the things that have happened the last decade and a half. Dad’s the biggest change. I was talking to him today and he and Wanda have taken in another baby. A little girl this time. She’s...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 13, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys
I watched you–wild and fearless–in the water and saw the boy you are becoming. You laughed at the sprays, danced in the drops, gulped down a fire hydrant’s worth. I saw you at five. You have journeyed miles since four. I saw you at six, seven, eight...
