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10 Ways From Sunday

There’s a thin line between wanting your children to be safely quarantined against the harsh world and wanting them to be prepared to hold their own in a landscape that is shifting, and increasingly for the worse. Someone said “MF’er” in front of my children the other day, and I wanted to slap her 10 … Continue reading 10 Ways From Sunday

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Exhale

I didn’t swear until I was fourteen More a statement of the world than of me Not a conscious rendering of faith or fear But of a young child’s ignorance instead The power of words is dynamic Focused and determined in its force Like a preacher imparting divine knowledge Or like a swan poised for … Continue reading Exhale