Category: My Family

Without a family, one seldom thinks long term

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What to name your baby girl….

Give me that old tomboy every time!

Is it just me or do I love that little ‘tom boy’ in every woman?

Naturally, when it came to naming my daughters, I chose names that would resonate with titles like “General”, “President”, “CEO” or just plain “good woman.” I could never follow anyone named ‘General Muffy’ or President ‘Tiffany’ or ‘Tyffannie’.

In a recent study, just naming your daughter with a overly ‘feminine’ name seems to … well… just ‘dumb her down.’ So, I guess ‘Barbie’ is out…. so to are the recently popular names of: Isabella , Anna , Elizabeth , Emma , Jessica , Samantha , Sarah , Olivia , Hannah , Emily , Lauren , Ashley , Grace , Abigail , Alex … plus anything too cutesy.

What is it about masculine women? smart? adventurous? sexy?I guess… like most men… we all like women with male ‘handles’… like ‘Sam.’

Roger Freberg

PS… see ladies, Mom and I did right by you.

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the Male & Female Brain… part deux

Laura is as I have always remembered herI am reminded each and every time Laura shoves a test or a Link towards me of that happy comment on a poster of my daughter’s… “to find happiness: RULE number 1 — marry the right person.”

I feel very fortunate.

Laura provided a link on a post of her’s that started quite a discussion in our home. One of the ‘tests’ is provocatively entitled: SEX I.D. : find out how your mind works.

Here I am near my 55th birthday earlier this yearSo how did we do?

Well, there is a part of the test which requires rotating objects in 3D and determining which of four figures resembles a fifth. I aced this section … while Laura struggled…. after further questioning , I realized that Laura had inadvertantly answered only half of each question. My smuggness evaporated.

The test revealed no real surprises to me, after all, we will have been married 35 years this year. The fact that Laura prefers masculine faces and I prefer feminine was hardly earth moving. However, we did have a number of similar traits in common… which brought knowing smiles to both of us.

Read Laura’s post and take the test… it’s fun.

UPDATE!

Hmmmm… Laura posted proudly that her brain was 53/47% masculine-feminine…  funny, mine came out a bit differently:

My Brain is What? Okay, maybe that explains why I am the one who invites folks over.

Roger Freberg

 

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American Women in Combat

Kristin is on the far leftMy daughter Kristin ( on the far right with her troups during the Invasion of Iraq) has written an excellent article on women in combat … there are many women in today’s military doing the hard job required.

Asked why they are fighting… some women will tell you it is to protect their rights to live free as well as yours.

Here’s Kristin’s article.

My heart felt appreciation to all our military personnel for their continuing contribution to preserving our way of life…

Roger Freberg

 

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Women’s Work is Never Done?

a man may work from sun to sun...Didn’t your mother teach you…‘a man may work from sun to sun… but a woman’s work is never done!”

They were and are wrong…. and they’re not alone. Roughly 70% of Sociologists ‘felt’ that women were shouldering the greater ‘burden.’ Sometimes fact is what you want it to be.

In a recent study by Burda, Hamermesh & Weil, overall American men work harder than American women. Are you surprised? Now that the ‘burden’ is shifting more evenly… women in America are sharing in some of blessings of equal work… shorter life expectancy, heart attacks and all the goodies associated with the stress of working ‘outside the home.’

Now, this is not to say that women aren’t carrying more than their load in more ‘civilized’ countries like Switzerland or Iran… but in the United States, men are doing a lot… it’s part of our heritage where it has for many folks always taken two pulling together to survive.

So…. how did I come to this discuss this wonderful unemotional topic?… Laura lobbed it over to me… I think she likes to stir things up?

Roger Freberg ( not working as hard as the average American male… and feeling Okay about it)

 

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Love you Jenny Craig… down 63.2 lbs!

Karen is a shadow! 

Hey, it’s all about losing weight… I’ve lost 63.2 lbs since the beginning of December 2006 and with my humungous salad with lunch, free food and maximum string beans with my dinner… it’s coming off very easily! Here I am 5 monthes later… with results!

Laura, Karen and I have dropped an entire person… together a total of 180 plus pounds!

They shoot… score!

Roger Freberg