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Geezerhood Looking Good!
Damn, this child-free life has its perks
Erika Schickel: My girls have been away at sleep-away camp for TWO WHOLE WEEKS and it has been utterly divine. This is the longest they've ever been away from home, and it's been long enough that I've gotten completely used to it. My house is clean and quiet, my days are centered entirely around my own needs and desires. I have abandoned the kitchen and eaten almost every meal out. I have had conversations with my husband! I have smoked dope in the house! Damn, this child-free life really has its perks. Makes you wonder sometimes.
Neal Pollack: Doesn't it, though? Basically, children destroy our brains and our identities when they're babies and toddlers, and then we spend a few years gradually piecing our old selves back together. Of course, by then, the life we had before kids has completely evaporated, forcing us to spend our evenings eating seafood with people named Bob and Gloria. At least that's what I think is going to happen to me.
ES: Yeah, already I'm feeling this strange yearning to play bridge ...
It's actually great to get a little snapshot of the future without kids, like this. This whole parenting thing is but a blip in our personal timelines. It's hard to grasp that when your kids are around, but once they start going away to camp and stuff, you see that really, it's almost over. I mean, assuming my kids matriculate smoothly into the real world between the ages of 18 to 20, I'm already over the halfway mark. A bittersweet revelation. But these two weeks have shown me that life is extremely full without my kids around.
Neal Pollack: Doesn't it, though? Basically, children destroy our brains and our identities when they're babies and toddlers, and then we spend a few years gradually piecing our old selves back together. Of course, by then, the life we had before kids has completely evaporated, forcing us to spend our evenings eating seafood with people named Bob and Gloria. At least that's what I think is going to happen to me.
ES: Yeah, already I'm feeling this strange yearning to play bridge ...
It's actually great to get a little snapshot of the future without kids, like this. This whole parenting thing is but a blip in our personal timelines. It's hard to grasp that when your kids are around, but once they start going away to camp and stuff, you see that really, it's almost over. I mean, assuming my kids matriculate smoothly into the real world between the ages of 18 to 20, I'm already over the halfway mark. A bittersweet revelation. But these two weeks have shown me that life is extremely full without my kids around.
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11:56 EDT, 23.Jul.08