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May.20.2013
My wife had her New Day sustainability breakfast on Friday morning. The agenda is to provide a forum for everyone to come together to share grassroot ideas about improving community. They often have several speakers. One speaker this week was from the United Way.
I was surprised...
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May.17.2013
Being a mother with four children to raise, on an Australian Single-Parent Pension, 1980’s-90’s was one hell struggle. How could I pay for the roof over our heads, put food on our table and ensure an education for us all?
While I was still married, I was fortunate to be living in a home that was...
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May.04.2013
I participated in the College Board conference Dream Deferred: The Future of African American Education.This was a powerful, awesome, and unbelievable conference. Educators, students and others discussed, brainstormed, engaged, networked, and collaborated. The...
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Apr.02.2013
I tried something new last year: teaching online. I live and write in California, but I’ve been teaching creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University via the internet. I’ve never been to New Hampshire. Even so, part of me is there. It’s a new world.
One thing I quickly learned about...
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Mar.28.2013
I've always jealously guarded my privacy and my daughter's. Now that she's an adult and is no longer my responsibility, I have no worries, whatsoever. I dare any parent to disagree that once our children are able to drink, drive, vote and enlist in the military, we are not only...
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Mar.19.2013
Fifteen-year-old son two came home from school yesterday, cornering me in the kitchen as I had just finished work, with his chest out and bag still on his back. He seemed very ready to tell me about school.
‘Hello.’ He kissed me. ‘You’ll never guess what happened today.’ He leaned back against the...
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Mar.06.2013
It's days like this where being an aspiring writer is a wonderful thing, as I can justify spending a pile of money on books by calling it "research" or "education".
Todays purchases: A Rayond Chandler two-for, "The Big Sleep/Farewell My Lovely", since my Mickey Spillane three-for didn't quite...
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Mar.04.2013
For four tortuous hours we bounced and lurched over narrow, crumbling mountain roads to a remote forest village in the eastern part of India, an area of tribal people who still live as they did hundreds, even thousands, of years ago...
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Feb.18.2013
A spike-like needle piercing one cheek and running through his mouth until it pushed through his other brown cheek, the youth trembled violently five or six feet away from me. Costumed in a multicolored robe and cape, a mirrored crown on...
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Feb.11.2013
My daughter seemed to be shrinking. I could hear her thoughts as clearly as if she'd said them out loud.
Mom, I didn't think.
A head taller than all but a few of the boys in her class and so bright I'd received a telephone call from the principal several weeks...
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