Ice Cream & Glass

Some brief thoughts on being a father today, specifically being a father of girls.

Obviously, I can't communicate what it means to be a father of boys because I have none. I do imagine what it would be like. And, in my imagination, it is not what it is like to have girls.

Sure, I've been teaching Mildred what zombies are, and which weapons one would use to slay them, but I don't expect her to actually have to slay many zombies, except when the males in her life (the ones that should be claiming their responsiblities as zombie slayers) have failed or have honorably perished.

I want all of my girls to be Jaels, capable of driving a tent peg into a Sisera when the need arises. But I don't see that as their primary call. Jael, I'm sure, did not then begin a career as a warrior. She cooked supper the next evening.