Monthly Archives: March 2010

A Case of the Human Condition: Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty

Pink dresses, powder blue dresses. Dresses with nosegays, kitty cats and sunbursts. Little girls, it seems, are the last stronghold of prettiness in today’s society.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Spring’s Here — And So Is That Guy With His Camera

  By Barbara Falconer Newhall He shows up every spring. Some years we see him. Some years we don’t. He shows up at our house just as dozens of daffodils are showing their bright, ridiculously optimistic faces all over the neighborhood and the show-offy star magnolia in our front yard is glorious with blossoms. Every year he arrives [...]

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A Case of the Human Condition: How Millennial Are You?

Want to know whether you are a Millennial, a Gen Xer, a Boomer or a Silent Generation-er? Take this test on the Pew Forum website. According to this test, I’m a robust 38 years old. And I only cheated a little — I said I had texted within the last 24 hours. But that’s only [...]

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Guest Post From Jon: Does “Under God” Belong in the Pledge of Allegiance?

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance does not violate the First Amendment. Since so many of our public schools have children recite the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, isn’t that tantamount to religious indoctrination in the schools?

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A Case of the Human Condition: How to Overmother a Twenty-Something

Christina hadn’t called. We had dropped her at the airport hours ago. The flight to Burbank takes only seventy minutes. She should be home by now. But Jon and I still hadn’t gotten the, “I’m home. The plane didn’t crash. My roommate remembered to pick me up, and we didn’t get mugged in the garage,” phone call.

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