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'With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them'
Last week, Public Agenda released a report exploring the reasons why only 20 percent of young adults at two-year institutions...
Math Geek Mom: Discussions at a Conference
Several weeks ago, I went to my first academic conference since taking my daughter home. It was also my first...
Motherhood After Tenure: snow day
We woke up this morning to a world caked in white — big draping sheets of snow hanging from our...
Eavesdropping
My son and I arrived ten minutes before the official vaccination clinic start time, but already the line-up for H1N1...
Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions
Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions --What happened to Thanksgiving? We had a houseful — which is...
The Last Laugh
Our family spent the Thanksgiving break in Dublin. I thought about the discussions here while on a tour of Trinity...
Math Geek Mom: Lights and Lives
The lights are on now at Ursuline College. They are not the festive, colorful lights that decorate our trees, but...
Long Distance Mom: Bra burning and Debutantes
“I am woman hear me snore.” I still own the cover to Helen Reddy’s much beloved 1972 album “I am...