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Apr.28.2009
Quite a few years back I began a short story from the viewpoint of a young mountain girl "taken advantage of," as we say, by one of the timber "cruisers" sent into the southern Appalachians to scout the best stand of forest to be clear-cut. As in Ron Rash's novel Serena, these timber companies...
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Dec.04.2008
A group of conservative bishops met on Wednesday at the Resurrection Anglican Church in West Chicago, Ill. Image Credit: Sally Ryan for The New York Times
Tradition-Based Episcopal Church Moves On
Ok, so it is out with the new and in with the old.
The Episcopal Church, in this new century, has had...
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Oct.06.2008
My two little guys got their hair cut today, Charlie for the first time. They hated it. No amount of toys or signing would keep them from batting at the lady with her scissors and her comb. Charlie confiscated the comb. The lady gave us an envelop with his little scraps of hair in it.
The Intersex...
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Sep.12.2008
Jeff Moriarty, Intel’s Mobility Community Manager (center, left) leads a discussion on mobile internet devices and their form factor/function. Image Credit: Intel
What Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New Media
Cellphone technology and computers are rapidly morphing into each other giving rise and...
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Jun.08.2008
For all the talk of identity politics in this past Democratic race, what strikes me is how little it really was about that. The press wanted it to be all about "women for Clinton," how resentful they are and how hard it is for them to accept being unable to vote for a female president...
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Mar.10.2008
Turns out, a lot.
I grew up in a feminist household in the 1970s and used to think that all humans were basically wired the same way, other than the obvious physical differences. Males were the way they were because they were forced into sports, were given toy guns and trucks to play with, had...
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Feb.21.2008
I wish my mom had lived to see this election. Leslie Jones was the definition of a Loyal Democrat. In November 2000 she was dying of cancer—she’d chosen not to continue chemotherapy and we all knew that the end couldn’t be more than a few months away—but she was more depressed about George Bush’s...
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