Writings in the Sand

Anatomical Fashion

You know when your son has officially left childhood and entered the tweendom/teendom phase of life. Suddenly, he stops wanting to wear the superhero t-shirts and wants to wear skulls (for some strange reason, boys will return to superhero t-shirts in their 30s, but for now, it's skulls).

In recent years, skulls have also become the favorite of teen girls. I even embroidered some skulls on a pair of gloves I knitted for a niece. I hate to admit that I gave in to cultural pressures, but there it is.

I don't really understand the obsession with skulls - skulls on hats, skulls on t-shirts, skull tattoos. Shoot, just wait long enough and you will BE a skull. You won't need a skull tattoo because you won't have any skin. You got your own dang skull. Now use the brain inside it for something.