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Final thoughts on what it was like to live through the adminstration-that-must-not-be-named

19Nov08

Everybody Tells me Everything
By Ogden Nash

I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so [...]


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Gen X Raising Gen O

18Nov08

The new project, dedicated to parenting in the nation’s service:
Generation X Raising Generation O
Come visit, read, discuss.


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Generation X raising Generation O: Exhibit B

13Nov08

Shortly after the election, Finn and I were shopping for a birthday gift for his cousin at Keplers, our excellent local independent bookstore.  I was browsing books and word games, Finn was plopped in front of the craft and toy section, which included many coveted items, like a “paint your own race car” set…
But on [...]


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Hallelujah

05Nov08

In my inbox this morning, the subject title above, and the message below from my dear friend Mary:

“Rosa sat down so that Martin could walk, and Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our kids could fly.”

This morning we all feel better about the future.

It’s not simply that we think Barack Obama will [...]


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The Times Are A Changin’

04Nov08

There is something kids like better than candy.
Take Halloween.
As soon as the kids, especially the older kids, especially the older Latino kids, heard the Obama swag piled by our door was for their taking, they turned from the candy bowl and grabbed handfuls of loot.
We gave away rally signs by the tens, buttons by the [...]


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In which my friend & I ponder war toys in this galaxy & others…

21Oct08

After Finn got his first light saber I knew that I had finally caved.  Strictly speaking, we could no longer be a No War Toys home.
I emailed  my very wise, and very funny friend Catherine:

“just got first light saber.
quandry: does a weapon from another galaxy violate my no war toys policy?”
Being a writer, and of [...]


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In Which Ella, Age 6, Explains the Principles of Pedagogy to Her 3-Year-Old Brother

15Oct08

We were on our way back from the city, in a dark car.  It had been a long fun day of dancing and eating, and both Ella and Finn were snug in their car seats, and we expected them to sleep.
Ella had other ideas. Thin crust pizza and small batch ice cream were churning in [...]


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Sarah Palin Can’t Talk Her Way To the End of a Sentence, so why should I think she can talk to world leaders?

26Sep08

“ I wish every American would come through here,” she continued. “I wish every world leader would come through here, and understand what it is that took place here, and more importantly, how America came together and united to commit to never allowing this to happen again. And just to hear from and see these [...]


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Another Perspective On Why Sarah Palin Makes a Lousy Role Model

19Sep08

Axe Handles
by Gary Snyder
One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the door
Is long enough for a hatchet,
We cut it to length [...]


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