Month: June 2018

Disarming?

I’ve written “Disarming Boys,” an essay to be published in 2019. It’s a story about growing up with guns, then giving them up. While doing research on boys, girls, gender, and violence I ran across two videos. View them back to back, and a provocative discussion emerges: In “Interview with a Toddler,” La Guardia Cross,…


Big questions without religion

Teaching Children To Ask The Big Questions Without Religion June 16, 20187:04 AM ET, Heard on NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, DEENA PRICHEP Emily Freeman, a writer in Montana, grew up unaffiliated to a religion — culturally Jewish on her father’s side, a smattering of churchgoing on her mother’s. She and her husband Nathan Freeman talked about not identifying…