What I meant to do yesterday was post a few articles, like this one on boys and gender, and this article and also this article–and I was going to encourage you to donate. Instead, I lay on a futon under the chinaberry trees and read the NY Times. Linc decided that Mother’s Day meant that [...]

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This one, on teachers’ salaries, by Dave Eggers. And a group of articles by Tucson’s own Patty Machelor on foster care and the other thing. The stories are heartening, inspiring, and discouraging. Thank you to our underpaid teachers. Thank you, Patty M, for reminding us that there are so many ways children grow up, so [...]

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Tina Fey on Fresh Air the other day…Oh how I love her. This is from her new book Bossypants. The mother’s prayer for its daughter: First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither the Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she be beautiful but not damaged, for it’s [...]

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