A good deal of the academic work that has been done on the subject of mothers and sons comes out of the greater Boston area. When I was researching the book, I came across a program called the "Mothers-Sons Project," which was based at the Jean Baker Miller Training Insitute at Wellseley College. It took place in the 1990s, and it was among the first times academics began to really question the prevailing "wisdom" about how mothers should interact with their boys.
I interviewed one of the women who ran this program several times on the phone, and she was incredibly generous in sharing her research and insights. Well, tomorrow I am meeting her for dinner up at Wellesely and I'm really excited. It's like a blind date, except we already spent hours talking to each other.
We are hoping to do some kind of collaboration around the book and the topic of mothers and sons in the future. Icing on the cake - I get to have dinner with The Boy on Saturday night.
Now I just have to figure out how to navigate Boston. The city is a mystery to me, and those traffic circles really scare me. (What? Me scared driving? Now there's a novelty....)
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