Parents: would you let her teach YOUR kids?

April 29, 2015
Was there ever as crazy a "love affair" as that between teacher Mary Jo Letourneau and her now husband, Vili Fualaau?  She met him when he was a second grader and by...
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The crazytown of prescription drugs

April 28, 2015
Let me say it outright: I do not believe prescription drugs should be marketed to the general public. I don't know what the government was thinking when they allowed...
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A personal story about gender identity issues

April 27, 2015
It was the early 1990s and I was doing volunteer work for an organization that provided services to people with HIV and AIDs. What we did was something called "emotional...
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Years are getting shorter

April 26, 2015
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Don't they? I got a text the other day from a 40-something mom I know whose daughter was about to turn 17.  She said: "I always say about raising kids that days are...
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Sinatra: he stepped up

April 25, 2015
My mother was a bobby-soxer back her day and Frank Sinatra was her favorite artist. He was adulated by teens in the 1940s --oh, that voice, like velvet-- and my mother...
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Pacifica Beauty giveaway today!

April 24, 2015
Every so often I fall deeply in love with a product line and when I’m lucky enough to be able to do a giveaway for that brand, it’s even better. Purify Coconut...
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Fools rush in

April 23, 2015
The other day I opened a message from a daily inspirational message service to find this: It's no accident, Carol, that your courage often overrides  your common...
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What can parents do about mean girls?

April 22, 2015
This began as a post about saying goodbye and then morphed into one about mean girls. I don't think that's an accident. The stories in Dumped, Women Unfriending Women...
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Passing down digital assets

April 21, 2015
Now that I don't work outside the home, the calendar has a different, more casual function. It's more like...well, guidance.  Sure, there are some hard and fast...
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Not my problem

April 20, 2015
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I like to think I'm pretty evolved at this age, but then again, things happen that remind me I'm still a work in progress and I'm likely to still be a work in progress...
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