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I should’ve raised my kids with guilt

But no, I was trying to be the best mom in the world. I did everything opposite of what my parents did. I told my children how beautiful they were, how smart, how funny. Instilled in them how they had to be respectful of others, yet said how they should never take sh*t from anyone who didn’t return the favor. Made it such that they’d get a shiver of revulsion if they attempted something important in the usual, conventional ways. And encouraged them to not only follow their dreams, but to make them happen. In effect, it was my mission […]

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My Daughter Said it Best

The lowdown on the recent presidential election. There’s been a bunch of talk from experts and laymen alike about how it came to be that our new president is our president. But like a lot of things in life, sometimes the best source of information comes from children. To analyze the election, I repeat the words of my daughter, Tara, circa 8 years old, somewhere along 1993. “Mama, it seems that in our country, the people that come first are: a. White menb. Black menc. White womend. Black women” “It does kinda seem like that, babe,” said me, her less-intelligent-than-her […]

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