Stuart Sheldon
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 14, 20163 min read
Anger Issues?
“What are anger issues, Daddy?” My ever-perceptive 6-yr-old asked me this on the ride to school a few days ago, having somehow heard the...
Stuart Sheldon
May 25, 20163 min read
The Other F Word
Late one morning, long before children, I sat on the edge of a New Orleans hotel bed and exhaled audibly. Inside my skull, a spicy Jazz...
Stuart Sheldon
Mar 30, 20163 min read
Do We Ruin Our Kids By Giving Them a Better Life?
“I’m bored,” my seven-year-old barked at me, as I flipped eggs one sunny Saturday. I stomped in from the kitchen and pointed the spatula....
Stuart Sheldon
Feb 23, 20162 min read
How to Face Yourself
My cheeky 6yr-old made goofy expressions in the mirror, raising his eyebrows and, finally, grimacing slightly. “Daddy, you know what I...
Stuart Sheldon
Oct 7, 20153 min read
Buzzing From the Stoke
At a religious service last month, invited to pray silently, I shut my eyes, inhaled deeply and began my routine gamut of wishes:...
Stuart Sheldon
Apr 2, 20152 min read
Please Sir, May I Have Some More?
“Daddy, I’m starving,” my 7-yo lamented, being, to use his own word, “marshmallow-dramatic.” “What’d you eat for lunch?” I asked,...
Stuart Sheldon
Feb 24, 20153 min read
You Are Mistaken, And That’s OK
“Even monkeys fall from trees.” Chris Bradford, The Ring of Earth. No way, I thought to myself the moment my brush, wet with polymer...
Stuart Sheldon
Feb 4, 20153 min read
You Suck, Daddy! Harsh Words From a Five-Year-Old
“You suck!” my 5-yo barked into my face, looking me dead in the eye. The words hit me like broken glass. My neck and stomach clenched,...
Stuart Sheldon
Aug 21, 20143 min read
An Homage to Women, Wives and Mothers
My eldest stepped out of the car yesterday in a brand new lemon-yellow school shirt and khaki shorts, holding a bag full of pencils,...
Stuart Sheldon
Jul 8, 20142 min read
Not a Touching Story
The little girl kept doing it … marching straight to the front, skipping everyone in line and going down the water slide. After the 3rd...
Stuart Sheldon
Jun 11, 20143 min read
What Do You Hide From Your Kids?
“Did you ever get divorced?” 6-yo Kai recently asked my wife, as we three sat on the couch munching white-cheddar popcorn. “No, that was...
Stuart Sheldon
May 29, 20143 min read
Are You Needed?
Dusk Falls on Dan’s Delicious, acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 48″, 2002, Stuart Sheldon Helplessness happens. We are born completely powerless...
Stuart Sheldon
May 14, 20143 min read
Are Your Nipples Magic?
“Daddy, do babies have tiny nipples?” my 4-yo, Bodhi, asked me, lounging in a fresh pair of PJs. “Yes,” I answered from the couch,...
Stuart Sheldon
May 8, 20143 min read
Did Your Parents Make Your Soul at Conception?
Do your parents construct your soul at that climactic moment? Or does it pre-exist, only to be reactivated in that surge of...
Stuart Sheldon
Nov 7, 20133 min read
The Mother of All Awkward or How To Bite a Ten-Month-Old
Demure Becomes You, acrylic, antique cookbook, cardboard on canvas, 60″x60″, 2007, Stuart Sheldon We all have ex lovers. Encountering...
Stuart Sheldon
Jun 6, 20132 min read
Relationships = Bottles of Tabasco
photo by Jenny Kaczorowski from WANA Commons We just finished bottle number two. Took us nearly ten years. Each drop another meal,...
Stuart Sheldon
Jan 29, 20132 min read
My Mother Was a Beauty Queen
This is My Mom!! My mother was a 1950’s beauty queen. I have a photo to prove it. She kneels atop a real live tortoise. Beneath a palm....
Stuart Sheldon
Dec 12, 20121 min read
Puppy Breath
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” Bern Williams Share this: Tweet Share on Tumblr Email #parenting...
Stuart Sheldon
Nov 30, 20121 min read
Are You Happy, Daddy?
Stuart Sheldon, We Can’t Be Too Bold, acrylic and typing on Chinese funeral paper on panel, 12″x12″, 2003 “Are u happy, Daddy?” my...
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