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Read more: Redefining the word princessMeghan Markle is a biracial, divorced, 36-year-old American feminist, says Sophie Gilbert at TheAtlantic.com. Millions may have tuned in because of fascination with royal tradition,…
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Read more: No thank yousI am not surprised, but I am still appalled. I am helping create “graduation boxes” filled with things like a soap dish and shower shoes…
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Read more: Summer readingOnce a week during this school year, I have visited a junior high student at a school only a few blocks from my house. She…
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Read more: All the way to AfricaI paid $23.25 to mail a book—Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke—to my niece Emma, who is spending two years in Africa with the Peace Corps.…
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Read more: An open mindThe last poem in Naomi Shihab Nye’s book A Maze Me is very short. My mind Is always open. I don’t think there’s even a…
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Read more: Amazed foreverWhen she was in junior high, people always asked the poet Naomi Shihab Nye what she wanted to be when she grew up. In her…
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Read more: Amazing!I heard Naomi Shihab Nye speak recently at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas. And, I just read the poet’s book A Maze Me. This…
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Read more: Your children will be fineLong ago, when my children were young, I read a reassuring article. Your children are going to be fine, the author stressed. However, she added,…
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Read more: Important workIf you are a mother, never forget that you have done—or you are doing—important work. “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever…
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Read more: Tired, but happyI have a new, improved plan for Mother’s Day! We had planned to visit our son Jay in Tulsa during Memorial Day weekend, but he’s…