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October 29, 2009
- Looking for gifts that reflect you culturally? We have loads of great gift ideas for all the family:The 2009 Black Holiday Gifts Guide is even bigger and better than last year's. • Books for young children, older children, biographies and more • Music - CDs, DVDs and MP3 downloads• Toys, games and activities • Game consoles• Michael Jackson musicAs well as articles, ideas for ...
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October 29, 2009
- Looking for gifts that reflect you culturally? We have loads of great gift ideas for all the family:The 2009 Black Holiday Gifts Guide is even bigger and better than last year's. • Books for young children, older children, biographies and more • Music - CDs, DVDs and MP3 downloads• Toys, games and activities • Game consoles• Michael Jackson musicAs well as articles, ideas for ...
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October 17, 2009
- When is doing a good deed not so good for everyone? I think it is when you allow others the freedom from not having to take care of their own responsibilities. The things that they can (more than likely) learn to do for themselves. This, in turn, keeps us busy and veiled from sight to a greater need or loss that we could possibly attend. I hope to explain ...
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September 25, 2009
- Some goodbyes are poignant. Some are with relief. Some can be with a hearty “good riddance” or “don’t let the door hit you on the way out”. Some are reluctant, others welcomed, yet others engender a curious combination of emotions that can hit you like a pineapple anchovy pizza. The goodbyes I think about the most are the ones never said; the times when circumstance or ...
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September 22, 2009
- I was reading an interview with Rebecca Stead the other day in which she talked about why she had set her new novel, When You Reach Me, in 1979. “I wanted to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy,” she explains, “and I wasn’t sure that it would ring true in a modern New York setting. For better or for worse, life is different now.”That difference was the subject of a ...
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September 4, 2009
- Every day in the papers and on TV, we get the bad news. Murders, political intrigue and corruption, the state of the economy. Let's celebrate Black success. All around us are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Our children need to be reflected in positive ways, not just the negative stereotypes which about in the media. Children of all different racial and cultural backgrounds ...
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September 3, 2009
- Unlike much of America, Philadelphia still hasn’t gone back to school. No early soccer practice. No head-start on the daunting junior-high curriculum. We honor the quaint tradition of waiting until after Labor Day. So my daughters have wrung one last week out of summer. Nevertheless it’s a somber time, the air full of premature briskness and their ennui, which resembles my own ...
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August 20, 2009
- My kids are growing up. Okay, I'll be more honest. My sons are grown. They are both over twenty-one, and act like grown-ups, too. In other words, they are now doing the things that grown-ups do. My younger son is on his honeymoon (I know that because he and his new wife stopped by to see me on their way there). My other son, the older of the two, just emailed me with news that he is to ...
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August 13, 2009
- Once there was a boy.There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about him when he was born, but his parents, like most parents, believed him to be the most perfect baby.He was a rough-and-tumble child, as boys tend to be — active and talkative and social. Somewhere along the way, he developed little quirks — the “right” person had to take him out of the car seat, his shoelaces had to be ...
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July 25, 2009
- As a teacher, I hear about the boring school setting. Hey, I work there. I know a high school can be boring. The difference is, I expect it to be boring. Life is sometimes boring, and I actually think it is fine for school to be boring sometimes.I cannot sing and dance and I cannot make a creative song out of every new grammar term or literary term. I will not accompany every lesson with a ...
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