Man-Cave...a totally random reflection
I hear it everywhere: on television commercials and shows, from friends and even from my daughter. Men have, or want to have, “man-caves.” You know, every man wants to have a room he can decorate with posters of sports and beer. A place where he can house his weight lifting gear or running shoes, pool table or tools. Now, I wonder, when did this phrase, “man-cave” come into every day parlance? Or more to the point, “why” did this phrase come into common use? When I think of cave I think of Elizabeth George, the mystery writer from England who once played out a story along the caves of coastal England. Or I think of the story in the news some years back and retold by Barbara Kingsolver in “Small Wonder.” She writes “On a cool October day in the oak-forested hills of Lorestan province in Iran, a lost child was saved in an inconceivable way. The news of it came to me as a parable I keep turning over in my mind, a message from some gentler universe tha...
