I have at times been crotchety in espousing my parenting values on this blog (aka Swooning for the 1950’s), so it should be no surprise that the NYTimes article about Chicago coffee houses requesting good behavior from their toddler patrons was one I couldn’t resist.
Here I clamber back up on my Crusty […]
Posted on November 9th, 2005 by Allison
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Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. When I was a kid my mother always made our costumes. Sometimes you couldn’t quite tell exactly what we were but they were always inventive. It was always such a bummer to put on our big winter coats over our costumes before a night of trick […]
Posted on November 5th, 2005 by Sam
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I was in college before I ever really realized there was a world that existed outside of myself. When I started at the University of Michigan the movement against Apartheid and the injustice of the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in South Africa including Nelson Mandela, dominated our campus. We all wore copper bracelets […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 by Sam
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