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As featured in the New York Times blog Motherlode
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A mother and her son are in line at a grocery store. They boy looks like he’s about nine or ten. The mother looks a little tense as the boy starts to fidget in line. At this [...]
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This week a woman I knew in high school shared snapshots of her family at Halloween; she and her husband and a few other couples had gathered to take the kids out trick-or-treating. The adults were all smiling, dressed in matching thematic costumes, and the children [...]
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To those of you without children, there are probably few things less interesting or appealing that the subject of toilet training. The fact that we parents engage in such discussions with amazing fervor may even make you wary of having children of your own. [...]
This post is the seventh in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the third post about the candidates themselves.
Sarah Palin and I have very different moral, political and spiritual beliefs. We have had very different experiences as women and mothers. I'm sure there [...]
