July 29th, 2007 11:50pm
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Last June at the end of my daughter, Valerie’s, freshman year in high school, her teachers’ handed out the summer reading, researching, and writing assignments that are due on the first day of class in August. Although I had to sympathize with Valerie that having homework over the summer is a burden that not even college students have to bear, I figured that a thousand pages of Homer (that’s the …
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July 23rd, 2007 01:55am
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There are two tomes on my 15 year old daughter’s nightstand: The Iliad and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Iliad is the assigned summer reading for her 10th grade honors English class next fall. For her (and it would be for me too), having to read The Iliad is like being prescribed some nasty medicine; you can only tolerate it in small doses, it’s really unpleasant going down, …
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July 15th, 2007 09:01pm
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I don’t think I’m alone in this, that as life gets busier the ways we spend our time gets pared down to what is essential. For instance, before we started our own business, I cleaned the house once a week from top to bottom – those busy little cobweb producing spiders would make a bolt for the nearest exit when they saw me coming with my extendable duster and I …
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July 8th, 2007 06:55pm
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On January 2nd, as we’re putting the Christmas decorations away, Jennifer asks me what I think we should do to celebrate her birthday. Since her birthday is the 5th of July, I told here that we had plenty of time to work out the details and she needn’t worry that I would let a momentous event like her 11th birthday pass by uncelebrated. Jennifer likes to plan things out very …
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July 2nd, 2007 12:32pm
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I usually write about non-controversial topics that involve with our kids and family business. The challenges in those two areas consume all my brain power so I happily leave the more politically-charged issues to the editorial page writers.
However, there is one topic that impacts my world very directly, is a hot button for a much broader audience, and is something I feel strongly about. Deep breath-here goes-I love Target …
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