cabin fever

Being Housebound with One's Children, by a Mom About to Lose It

Men think they are tougher than women because they lead expeditions to the North Pole and climb Kilamanjaro and jazz like that.  I scoff at such paltry, wussy “feats of endurance.” When the most grueling tests of human stamina are required, men chicken out and vamoose. I’m not talking about jumping cars over ravines. I’m not talking about anything having to do with search-and-rescue, monster trucks, or ultimate fighting. I’m talking about superhuman, godlike fortitude.  When school is cancelled for weeks on end because of snow in the winter, men do not get trapped in their houses with their children.  They shovel out, chip out, dig out and get the lead out.

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