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To stop it – we must name it.
A friend of ours has been borrowing our truck for the past few months and today called to tell me she’d been pulled over by our local police. They said the first thing they noticed was the front...
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Notice the Differences and the Similarities
The charter school Ella and Jacob attend does not take Martin Luther King day off. It’s our first year there, so I’m not sure why that is, but they were only back two days from their long winter break...
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Black and Proud – Hopefully
Two of my children started school this week. Sassafras and Little Man go to a charter school and Monday morning – off they went. The school they attend is 80+% caucasian. Sassafras’ grade level is...
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Chocolate Pudding? Depends.
Yesterday as I picked Jacob up from school and we were rushing out the door two younger boys said, “Hi, Chocolate” then a minute later added “pudding”. I wasn’t able to process what they’d said...
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42 – The Jackie Robinson Story – Is it for Kids?
Since this will be a great movie weekend in our neck of the woods, due to very unseemly “spring” weather, snow on May 3rd, for real, I’d like to recommend a movie. Every adult should see 42. It is...
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder and the Beholder’s Eye is Biased
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One of the big pop culture stories of last week was about TV personality Julie Chen. When she was just starting out in her broadcast career a boss told her she...
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Talk, Talk and Then Talk Some More
Apparently on Friday my little man had had enough of a classmate’s racial comments and he spoke up. Some of the comments were aimed at his particular race, but the comments that seemed to disturb and...
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Happy Kwanzaa!
Beautiful Kwanzaa faces. Today Ella, Jacob, Chad, Mark and I headed to our local history center for the Kwanzaa celebration. Opening ceremonies included drumming, dancing, lighting of the Kwanzaa...
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