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Local Mom Goes Gray Overnight
On Wednesday, my sixteen-year-old son went to his girlfriend’s house after school. Usually we expect him home for dinner on...
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Math Geek Mom: Boarders and Helicopters
When graphing points on a number line, one can graph all points up to and including a point by using...
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Motherhood After Tenure: the beauty of being busy
We've all heard the saying, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it." Well, last fall...
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ABC's and PhD's: Specializing
Some advice I remember from when I was little was “the earlier you can decide what you want to do...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Tiger Mothers and Drifting College Students
The two most e-mailed articles in my cohort last week seem to have been the “Tiger Mother” piece from the...
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Diary of a Wimpy Mom
I have been thinking, and talking with other parents, a great deal about parenting styles in the wake of the...
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Math Geek Mom: On Being Well Behaved
In economics, we sometimes describe economic activity as being able to be modeled by what we call a “well behaved...
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Long Distance Mom: Speed Trap
The holiday vacation is for me, as for many academics, a time when I complete much-needed fieldwork for projects; in...