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That 'Quiet but Persistent Inner Voice'
In response to last week’s post, Suzanne Sheffield commented, “Your story reiterates what I often think - as parents we...
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Math Geek Mom: Exponential Growth
When I was a child, there was a commercial on (black and white) TV that had a very happy woman...
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Motherhood After Tenure: on beauty
My six-year-old daughter likes to dance around the living room with a pink Barbie microphone pretending to be Sharpay from...
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First day … again and again
Sometimes it seems like the first days of school go on and on. Last week was the official first day...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Latch-Key Kid
Over the 15 years that we’ve had children in school, my husband and I have managed not to have latch-key...
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Math Geek Mom: Existence Theorems
As I work proofs with my Calculus and Higher Geometries students, I often run across the Greek symbol that, in...
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Long Distance Mom: Jane Addams
September 6th was the 150th birthday of writer, philosopher and political activist Jane Addams --the first woman to receive the...