diary of a family turned upside down
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Katharine Birbalsingh runs one of Britain’s top-ranked schools, free to attend and catering almost entirely to underserved low-income, minority kids. So…
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It’s been four months now since our little world was turned upside down. Nearly three since my sons have had any substantive contact with their dad. In…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Kurt Vonnegut, specifically something he said in a famous interview in 1995. He was asked some tedious boilerplate…
"What's interesting I think is I've always been this person, with this voice, and the way people react to me when I speak has never changed. They either…
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laundry from the cracks
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a mother-daughter love story
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on the importance of tasks and contentment (plus a recipe)
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In university I had had a good friend who’s extended family included a branch of devout Christian Scientists. They had a big family cottage on a lake in…
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It’s our second home visit from social services, our case file is still under review. Frank is showing Elvis his dance moves. I’m making dinner in the…
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on the Marxist bargain of motherhood and the trouble with Fleishman is in Trouble
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