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Last month, I read Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz. Spiffy title, eh? The book’s even better!
I will not attempt to summarize this book. For one thing, it’s over 400 pages long, and them pages is dense. (Not like those 20 large-print-words-per-page [...] 
I have long loved this old Peggy Orenstein post, and I’m tempted to reference it almost daily.
It was only a matter of time before I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. I enjoyed the first edition mightily (haven’t seen the 2012 [...] 
This weekend, I saw The Last of the Mohicans for the first time. My thoughts are as follows: 1. Don’t let the poster fool you: Daniel Day-Lewis was not the Last of the Mohicans. In fact, no one was. The Mahicans/Mohicans and Mohegans are alive and well. More accurate titles might [...] 
Some people ‘save’ sex for marriage. Some people save money for a rainy day. Me, I’m saving Jane Austen novels. I’ve read a couple and found them delicious from beginning to end. Therefore, I’m saving the rest. After all, I can never read them For The First Time again, and it’s [...] 
Tonight, I have been watching Monty Python: Almost the Truth while catching up on our mending. As Ian wandered through the living room, I told him “this episode’s about The Meaning Of Life. Never saw that one, both of my sisters warned me it was too disgusting.” Not half an hour later, [...] 
Last Friday, I visited a first grade classroom. Why? Because when the going gets tough, the tough revert to childhood and cut symmetrical aliens out of construction paper.
A first grade boy christened my creation ”Alien X.” Good call, kid. The alien shall be prominently displayed in the [...] 
(While cleaning out my files, I found this snippet of fiction dated January 20, 2008. This one’s for Katie and Chrissy, the minds behind Far Away Literary Magazine.) (Winter Lovers by Zoja Trofimiuk. Image source) Rebobo is decidedly plain. She loves Jonagold, but knows he’s chasing a prettier girl. Rebobo can’t blame him, [...] 
(Quick, name that man! Image source) When I was thirteen or so, my mother went back to school. One day, waiting at the laundromat and lazily leafing through Mom’s textbooks, I read an intriguing essay: Judy Brady’s Why I Want a Wife. Much has changed since its initial publication in 1971. Much remains [...] 
If you are familiar with Don Marquis, then you already know Archy (a free verse poet and cockroach) and Mehitabel (the alley cat/ alleged reincarnation of Cleopatra). If you haven’t read these stories, prayerfully consider combing your library— or at least donmarquis.com. Here’s a Marquis favorite from Archy and Mehitabel, 1927: (image source) [...] 
Clapperboard clock! Image source Last Saturday, one of my dreams came true. Thankfully, not the one about runaway cars. My early-morning staring contest with Facebook was interrupted by a message from Bob Diven. This artist was shooting a short film in a theater downtown and wondered if I’d swing by to pick [...] |
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