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May 7, 2008 12:25 PM
Last night I saw King Lear at the Globe, Shakespeare's theater on the South Bank of the Thames. I've seen the play before, but now that I'm a parent I was especially struck by the idea of love and loyalty between parent and child gone terribly wrong....
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May 3, 2008 03:44 AM
No matter how great home is, new places totally rock my world and make me want to move. In Sweden it was excellent, affordable childcare; in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico it was the incredible light and loads of artists roaming the streets. Last week...
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Apr 26, 2008 12:05 AM
So I'm sitting on the floor in the hallway of a friend's house in San Francisco's Noe Valley, en route to the UK. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and I'm happy to be back in my city. The only thing is there's a swarm of police officers outside and...
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Apr 19, 2008 04:13 AM
Today I toured a Waldorf school. It was lovely. The kids ran around smiling and saying hello to our small group. The first graders jumped rope and sang songs. The seventh graders did a languid movement developed by the school's founder Rudolf Steiner...
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Apr 15, 2008 02:13 AM
Yesterday I went for the student observation part of the Montessori school admissions process. The other parents were nice and laid back. One nursed her three year-old as we all sat at the little kids' table in the classroom. Tenzin flitted from the butterflies...
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Apr 11, 2008 05:15 PM
My son is named after the Dalai Lama-- a fact I feel compelled to announce up front. The thought of people thinking "Tenzin" is a pseudo-African name is a problem for me. I know many fabulous people have made-up, African-esque monikers, and that names...
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Apr 7, 2008 08:05 AM
As a mom, I knew getting sick was a big deal when I woke up one morning so dizzy I coudn't get out of bed. Tenzin was six months old. I lay there obsessed with what would happen if I couldn't take care of him. If I became incapacitated for a week, a month,...
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Apr 4, 2008 12:10 AM
The day Dr. King was assassinated, 2008. I've been thinking about the challenges of talking about race in our country. As someone who believes that all human beings are suffering in one way or another, how to honor the specific wound caused by racism?...
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Mar 31, 2008 07:53 AM
So I'm, like, omni-racial. My mother is African-American, Native American, and Irish. My father is Ukrainian by way of Brooklyn. In my late twenties I wrote a memoir about being mixed race, and what it was like to move between so many worlds and feel...
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Mar 27, 2008 03:48 PM
Since before Tenzin was born, I've had an obsession with getting him The Perfect Everything. I wanted every item in his environment to be stimulating! Beautifully designed! Made of eco-sensitive hard woods ! Developmentally appropriate! Even though I...
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Mar 25, 2008 02:46 PM
I give myself a C plus on re-entry, but until I have more to say about that, I have other pressing questions, like: Can somebody help me with the food thing? I can't be the only one stumped by what to feed my three year-old. So here's the deal. Way back...
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Mar 21, 2008 07:58 PM
I’m on the plane listening to Gil Scot Heron’s Save the Children on noise reduction headphones.Two more hours until we land, and I can’t wait to see that little boy of mine at the airport. He’ll look at me as if I left yesterday and we haven’t been video-phoning...
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Mar 20, 2008 03:03 AM
I decided to get in the pool. I took my book and my little bag of beauty products, determined not to let any negative thoughts about race or class get to me. Come hell or high water, into the pool I would go. It was all transpiring according to plan until...
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Mar 17, 2008 08:15 PM
I'm still on the business trip, but between engagements I decided to take a little "r and r" in my hotel pool. I'm in Arizona, one of the two last states to declare Dr. King's birthday as a holiday. A terminal at the Phoenix airport is named after Barry...
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Mar 14, 2008 06:48 PM
As I watched Obama walk the streets of Jackson, I searched the corners of the TV screen for landmarks. When Anderson Cooper announced Obama had won the state of Mississippi in the Democratic primary, I let out a scream. A birthplace is a mighty thing....
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