This is a wonderful piece. I especially relate to it because I work in student services as well.
I look forward to following her as she pursues a higher-level job in academia.

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I hope it is toward a disaster. I hope the winkin’ and stuff doesn’t help move them toward victory.
Thanks to our friend Jesse for this piece from The Guardian.
(but the author wrote “preceded” where she should have used “proceeded”, and it’s bugging me–but maybe the spelling/usage is different in the UK? Rachel?)
Okay, and one more [...]

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Totally loved Michelle Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s speeches at the DNC.
I still get all emotional about Clinton’s campaign. I was so conflicted about who to vote for in the primaries. I remember being on the phone with Erika O while I was in line at the polls and we were going back and forth about [...]

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Okay, let me ask you this–if you go to some kind of social event, say a grown-up cocktail party, with your toddler, how do you and your partner share the task of preventing chaos in someone else’s house? Even with a fairly mellow two-year-old, there’s work to do, right? I mean if it’s a party [...]

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Surely this is all over the parenting blogsophere, but if you haven’t read it, check out this article on shared parenting. And if you are inclined, weigh in on the discussion about the article taking place in the TucsonMama forums.

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Dan Savage’s current “Savage Love” column made me cry, um, a lot. The support he felt from his mom, his love for her…it’s a wonderful thing. All children deserve to be treated with such care and respect. And his theatre ticket offer at the end of the piece…okay, enough with the crying already.

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This article sums up many of my thoughts about the electibility of Hillary Clinton. I know that people who don’t want her elected can articulate reasons aside from gender and likeability. But I firmly believe that our culture’s notions about gender play a huge role in how we view women in power.
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Prudence commented on this below, but we wanted to spread the word about Presidential Bingo
 This is from Moms Rising:
PLAY PRESIDENTIAL BINGO WITH US!  Break out the popcorn, gather ’round your youngins’ and turn on the TV!  We’ve made a great MomsRising Presidential Bingo card for you and yours to print & play while watching the [...]

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This is a letter from MomsRising about a new, affliated organization, FamiliesRising:
Dear MomsRising Member,
On Father’s Day last year we launched FamiliesRising.org, a mirror webspace that provides a venue for Dads, Grandparents, and anyone who doesn’t feel Momly to connect with the issues we are working on–because frankly our issues are family issues.  We’ve got some [...]

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Why is it that we hear Ms. Clinton referred to as “Hillary” and Mr. Obama as “Barack”, while it’s just “McCain”, “Huckabee”, “Giuliani”, etc?I can sort of see the reasoning behind “Hillary”, as “Clinton” is too ambiguous.  With “Barack”, my suspicion (fear) is that “Obama” sounds too much like “Osama”, and people are either afraid to [...]

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