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• The Electric Kool-Aid Hair Test & Other Hurricane Day Pastimes

  When I was a kid up north, I would wake up early on snowy, winter mornings and stay in bed holding my breath as the radio DJ listed the school systems closing due to icy roads. Those joyful snow days were spent building forts and snowmen, sledding, plotting massive [...]
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• Why we should care about Pussy Riot

  Whether or not you like their tunes, the artist collective Pussy Riot deserves our respect right now, and it’s not just because the Russian feminist punk-rock group has made it OK to use the p-word in polite circles. Three young, female members of the group – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria [...]
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• Help, my kids' school supply list ate our groceries!

  To paraphrase all the gripes I’ve been reading from mom friends on Facebook: Whatever happened to the days when all you needed for school was a few notebooks, some pencils and maybe a cute pencil case if you got lucky? Now that both of my kids are in middle [...]
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• The Joy of Sharing Tween Reads

  Now that my kids are older, we seldom end the day with a bedtime story. But instead of missing those shampoo heads nestled under each armpit with a big book open in between, I’m enjoying the more independent book sharing we’ve got going on, especially now that there are [...]
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