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  ‘No dark sarcasm in the classroom’

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  The other night at dinner, Susan (who will be five in October) told us that her sister Sally reads with her mouth closed, and so does Mom, unless she’s reading to the little kids. But when Susan looks at books, she said, she only sees the pictures and doesn’t hear anything inside her mind. We [...]

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  “Yeah, but you can tell how much it’s gonna cost”

  04.02.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  I always hated reading books in school. I’d take To Kill a Mockingbird home and read it all that night and then go back and have to search the pages for the answers to Mrs. Dart’s worksheets as we read at the torturously slow pace of one chapter a day. I still do that — [...]

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  So I don’t just read Cinderella’s Wedding Wish again

  02.03.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  When Dick and I came back to the States from Cairo, I was really sad to leave the perks of being a University teacher’s wife. In Cairo I took classes each semester, and Dick was home a lot; grading papers and grumbling, sure, but home. In Florida Dick took a job as a copywriter for [...]

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  Do your parents know what your favorite book is?

  10.24.08 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  Sarah Palin is like a national Rorschach inkblot test, especially for women. What we see when we look at her tells an awful lot about us. I’m not talking her politics per se, I’m talking her great hair, snappy clothes, edgy glasses, and Tina Fey sparkle. Maybe we hate her because she’s beautiful. Maybe we [...]

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  WFMW: It’s not about the journey

  02.20.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I’ve just realized that there is a chasm-like disconnect between what I like to do and what makes me happy. I know, shouldn’t have taken me thirty years to figure this out, but, they say knowing is half the battle. Or is that admitting? What’s Step One? And why do I feel like the guy [...]

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  Love you when you’re clean and sweet-smelling

  02.14.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  In honor of Valentine’s Day: I love books and my kids. Notice I don’t lie and say I love random “kids,” but my kids. Your kids are loud and messy and annoying. Mine are loud and messy and annoying and caused me pain as they came into this world. I don’t always love books and [...]