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Mid-week Wisdom and/or Mischief

Mid-week Wisdom

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Aren’t we all anxious people?
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Aren’t we all anxious people?

“Sometimes two strangers only need one thing in common to find each other sympathetic.” Continue reading Aren’t we all anxious people?

Friday Field Trip: A & W Root Beer
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Friday Field Trip: A & W Root Beer

A similar event happened to me at my friend Joan’s house, although it was sloe gin fizzes and her sweet father who called my parents. Continue reading Friday Field Trip: A & W Root Beer

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Mid-week Wisdom

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Book review: Between father and son

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates This book is an earnest and fervent warning from Coates to his … Continue reading Book review: Between father and son

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If you love me, read me a story

I spent over thirty years teaching children to read, and as much as schools may have changed in that time, … Continue reading If you love me, read me a story

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Reading is antidote to toxic stress of childhood poverty

Low income children suffer stresses that would buckle our knees and yet we expect them to learn and grow and … Continue reading Reading is antidote to toxic stress of childhood poverty

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Atticus is just a man after all

At twenty-six, Jean Louise Finch comes home to Maycomb, Alabama for a two-week visit with her adored father, Atticus. He’s … Continue reading Atticus is just a man after all

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Summer reading is the key to success

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One tough mother

“You’ll know who you are when you start losing things.” “It took a bit of ill-humor to make yourself up … Continue reading One tough mother

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