I’m on school drop-off duty this morning (honestly, it’s a pleasure rather than a duty, and I volunteered), and then a doctor’s appointment directly after, so this will be quick. Just thought I’d share Five…
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It seems to me that in this section we start to see these adolescents, nearing adulthood, beginning to sort out ways to exercise some agency, to try to make a difference, to change their communities…
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I’m hurrying over to a morning baby-sitting gig and you’re all hurrying off to join those crazy Black Friday crowds…or spending your online time today checking out what’s 50% off where. (You’re not, all of…
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I love when something I’m reading bumps into something I’ve read recently. Of course, this sends the little file clerk who presides over my memory scurrying through the vaults, tossing pages frantically hither and yon,…
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If you’ve read Ross King’s wonderful The Judgement of Paris (about the Impressionist painters), you’ll know how compellingly he puts together research to tell the story of a period of art history. In Defiant Spirits: The…
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