Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...relationship with my parents has changed drastically during college, so I thought they would have opened up to me about this. We're friends now, and friends tell friends when they're incredibly wealthy and powerful. "Son," they should have said, "The man in the tuxedo isn't nutty Uncle Bill as we always told you. He's the butler...
...author's utopianism is balanced by her pangs of practicality. Mendelson, whose credentials include a husband and a son as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from Harvard Law, is the most unimpeachable source this side of Janet Reno for such a girly-girl endeavor. Most of the book works on a sliding scale, giving tips for compulsives and slackers alike, such as the following memo to would-be floor cleaners: "Vacuuming every day is best for your floors. I feel obliged to say this even though most people, myself included, are unable to do this...
DEAR NERVOUS: Man overboard! Where I come from, we have a saying about matters of the heart: "If you've gotta ask..." Your very confusion is your answer. So, date your girlfriend. Be a friend to her son. But do not get married just yet. When the people who love and know you best say it's a bad idea, you should listen. Besides, you're too young...
...beyond mere weirdness. Dali must have enjoyed the worst relations with his father of anyone else since little Oedipus. In 1930 his parent wrote a frantic letter to Dali's friend, film director Luis Bunuel, begging him to prevent the artist's coming anywhere near him: "My son has no right to embitter my life," and his mother's health "will be destroyed if my son sullies it with his foul conduct." And his mother? At one point Dali exhibited an image of the Sacred Heart across which he had written SOMETIMES I SPIT ON THE PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER...
DEAR AMY: I'm in the U.S. Navy, currently on deployment. My girlfriend back home in Georgia and I are thinking about marriage, and I'm really uncertain. I love her with all my heart, but she's 21 and has a son. I'm only 19 and don't know if I'm ready to be a parent. My parents say I'm too young. I've always followed my heart in these situations, but now I'm very confused. --Nervous in the Service...