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the examined family
figuring out how to be and raise ethical, joyful humans in beautiful, horrible times
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I’m very into this approach to PTA fundraising. Pool it all! (This is also fantastic solutions journalism, by the way. More more more please.) The fam and I just watched Sea Beasts on Netflix and found it surprisingly awesome. (It’s pretty violent, but also has a great critique…
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Shut up and repair
Listen now (6 min) | At dinner Maya announced that some boys in her class had gotten in a fist fight in the hallway outside of their classroom door. I imagined the hooks with their chaotic jumble of backpacks and coats, the bin on wheels filled with lunchboxes, and then a blur of…
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'Hardship doesn’t always bring wisdom'
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A reality check on social capital
reflecting on research that cross-class connections are a secret to ending poverty
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In anticipation of my book coming out in paperback this month, I guest hosted Slate’s Mom & Dad are Fighting podcast this week and it was really fun…
Aug 7
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Cracking the code on liberated pleasure
5 questions for sex writer, feminist daughter, and new mother, Nona Willis Aronowitz
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on the lifeblood that is attention
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I got to spend some time in Santa Fe, New Mexico this week—a place I have a deep connection to. My parents lived her for a long time and I got married…
Jul 31
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Building a culture of care in America
I’m guessing that you, like me, have done a lot of thinking and feeling about abortion in the last couple of months. But what is it we think about when…
Jul 27
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What’s not to love about this piece? Brazilian besties inventing an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world This Gallup poll on confidence in public schools…
Jul 24
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The unworried well
thoughts on loving people with chronic illness
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And now, the rage
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Countering tantrums with sacred attention
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20+ Questions to Ask for 2020
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Internally rearranged
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