Life as a castrated man There was one psychological change that can be attributed solely to his new shortage of testosterone. He lost his interest in sex. It wasn’t dramatic, says Tom. Rather, he simply …
August 6, 2022
Bo Caldwell, best-selling author, was Stegner fellow at Stanford, lives in Northern California with her husband, writer Ron Hansen, and two children. She wrote for the Reader in the late 1990s
Articles by Bo Caldwell
Castrated San Diegans
Judith Moore feels her daughters' pain, Reader writer marries Cynthis Heimel
Lines of Love, Lines of Pain We lived by the hospital. I heard sirens every day. When both girls were with me in the house, I felt a smug assurance when I heard the sirens …
January 30, 2022
Bo Caldwell: Mom wants short skirts and a divorce
It was somewhere around then that I started to cry. I don’t mean a few tears now and then (I’d been crying all along, of course). I don’t mean that I cried when I was sad or upset. I mean that I began to weep almost every day.
August 13, 1998
Divorce, then an unlikely conversion to Catholicism
I was in first grade, my mom told me that I ’d been invited to play at Jenny’s house and that after school I should take the bus as usual but get off with Jenny. …
March 27, 1997
San Diego's military wives – practicality incarnate
Clutter doesn’t exist In their homes. The first thing you notice is order; and you don't just see it, you feel it. Nothing is out of place. Toys are on shelves, coffee-table books and family …
January 18, 1996