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Archive for February, 2012

Pink bears, heart shaped balloons, and other meaningless objects stuff the aisles for Valentine’s Day.  This annual celebration of Romantic love has evolved into yet another opportunity for parents to purchase plastic for their littlest sweethearts. I can think of no better Valentine’s Day gift to give my kids than a homespun story about love. [...]

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Despite being labeled an “older” or “at risk” pregnant woman by every parenting magazine and doctor’s consultation, I was thrilled when I gave birth naturally at the age of 38. My husband was further thrilled by the reproductive endocrinologist’s remark that his “superhuman” sperm greatly contributed to the auspicious event. But that’s another story. Thinking [...]

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The Huffington Post reported that  a Tea Party group in Tennessee is lobbying to remove references to slavery, and any mention of the fact that the some of our country’s founders owned slaves, from public school textbooks.  This denial of our our country’s racist history is on the same spectrum of behavior as Holocaust denying. [...]

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