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Summer Reading List

Summer is a blessing to teachers! In addition to the increased bone and emotional strength from the sun, a more healthy urinary tract and some much needed rest, summer brings time to do something almost unheard of during the nine months of the school year – read for pleasure! Yummy! Sometimes the only thing that […]

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Parenting | Teaching | Women's Issues

Grief and Loss As Spring Turns To Summer

June is hard for me. As the season changes and the weather brightens, I find myself every year in a bit of a funk. My dad died in June, the day before Father’s Day, fourteen years ago, and I still grieve his loss. We all know, Americans don’t do death well, and I am an […]

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Books | Food | Parenting | Women's Issues

Stop! Hold On. Stay In Control.

If parenting teaches you anything, it is that you have control over exactly nothing. Like writing, for instance. I had been writing a post about Wonder Woman—the new one, the old ones and myself. I had a great start. About a page and a half. Then I remembered I was a Mom. Or, rather, I […]

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