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Motrin-gate

…. cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. This past weekend, Motrin – a well trusted household brand came under the attack of one of the most talked about groups in the world of advertising and marketing today;…

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Joe the Pedophile wants to be your Facebook Friend

Cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog…… Oh, that of course isn’t is screen name. He uses his real one. You can’t tell he’s a convicted pedophile by looking at him but his profile picture shows him at…

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What would you do if the teacher made your disabled child sit in a closet all day?

This San Francisco Bay Area story is cross-posted from our sister site, 50-something moms blog. My nephew Garrison is 16. He likes playing video games and reading books about TinTin and Garfield. He’s a dead-eye free-throw shooter, a skill he…

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  • Welcome to My San Francisco Bay Boating Blog In this blog I will chronicle my boating experience on San Francisco Bay, Sacramento Delta, California lakes, and more. I will include pictures and facility reviews from restaurants to boat ramps to bait shops. Unless otherwise stated, all pictures on this site are taken by be and all rights are......

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The Content of Their Character: the March on Washington and Barack Obama

….cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. During our summer vacation, while I was in high school, I watched the broadcast of the 1963 March on Washington, which took place 45 years ago today. As the day unfolded,…

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Lessons I Have Learned About Kids and Computers

… cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. We bought our first computer after I started teaching. Apple made it easy for teachers to buy a Mac for their personal use. I would be able to get work…

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Trust no one?

… cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. The young man ringing our doorbell looked clean-cut and harmless enough. Opening the door, I assumed he was one of my son’s friends and greeted him with a smile. “I’m…

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Sam Lamott

… cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. Lately I’ve been thinking about Sam Lamott, the son of best-selling author Anne Lamott. I don’t know of many women who haven’t read Anne’s Traveling Mercies, her collection of essays…

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Pride for Iowa

… cross posted from our sister site, Chicago Moms Blog. The news coverage came on CNN as a “Severe Weather” update. We saw that Iowa City was flooding. It was still raining. We called my extended family for the crisis-check….

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Sex Ed with Visual Aids

… cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. I am not a grandmother yet, though many of my friends are. And that’s okay with me. After the last grandbaby announcement, though, I began to wonder if my situation…

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