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My Year of Questions

March 25, 2011
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Please visit and bookmark my new blog, My Year of Questions As the mother of a six-year-old boy, my days, more often than not, begin with questions. Our son has a habit of bounding into our bed around six each morning and awakening us with something like this: “Who would win in a fight–Batman or the Incredible Hulk? Which is beautifuler–a sunset or a rainbow?” Many of his questions begin with why: “Why haven’t scientists figured out how to turn sand into time? Why do kids sometimes act like your friend and sometimes growl at you? Why do I...

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Afghan Women’s Writing Project

August 4, 2010
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In the two-part essay I Am for Sale an Afghan woman describes the terror that she and her immediate family faced when she refused a marriage arranged by her uncle. The Afghan Women’s Writing Project is the brainchild of Bay Area novelist Masha Hamilton (The Camel Bookmobile, 31 Hours), who first visited Afghanistan in 2004. Inspired by the courage of the women she met there, she created a place for Afghan women to share their stories, anonymously and uncensored. Read more about it here.

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Video of missing Colorado boy

October 15, 2009
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The three Heene boys, including 6-year-old Ryo (confusing, as he is referred to in Falcon in at least one article), who was believed to have floated away in his family’s hot air balloon earlier today, appear in this rather odd rap-style home video with an unappealing title. The balloon has since come down, and the boy was not inside. WHERE IS HE? One has to question the judgment of parents who would write a song for their children using the word “p***ified.” The family has appeared on the CBS show Wife Swap, and the father, Richard Heene, maintains a...

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Strange as fiction

August 26, 2009
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Crime novelist Lisa Reardon is in jail in Michigan for allegedly shooting her father. According to the Detroit Free Press: Lisa Ann Reardon’s father is in stable condition today as she sits in the Washtenaw County Jail, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. He fled inside the home in the 6300 block of Brand after she shot him at 7:30 p.m. Friday. And after trying “numerous times” to follow him inside, she drove off and was later arrested in Livingston County.

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Goodbye, with love, John Hughes

August 7, 2009
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Goodbye, with love, John Hughes

I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t do. It was Sven Delaney’s mother who drove, I remember that clearly. This was 1984, a hot Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, and Sven and his mother picked me up in a station wagon, one of those long sleek numbers with wood paneling and little...

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