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Posted on December 16, 2009

Why our boys are failing – and what you can do about it

It’s Christmas, and I have a request for fathers out there: Buy your sons some boy-friendly books and then read with them. If you’re rubbing your head thinking, “What the heck’s a boy-friendly book,” chances are you’ve let Mom handle the literacy efforts in your household. Time to change, because in spite of No Child …

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Best part of my morning: baby on the bus. This would be a common site on the non-express busses, because many #Tucson families can't afford vehicles, but I have never seen it on an Express bus, filled as it is with professionals headed to jobs downtown or, like me, at the university. Love this blessing.
Yes, 100% YES. Thanks to @schultz_connie for postig this. To my daughters, my DILs, my nieces and great-nieces: BE NANCY (And I have to note that Ms. Pelosi shows that taking time out of career for kids does not have to slow you down: she was an at-home mom until her kids were all in elementary school and THEN entered politics.) #benancy #myhero @jbracken8 @bernalsarah @jredwards82 @becepp @kmoncatch @crichtal @clare_shelley @laurenhsimmons2 @proudnavywife89
The New York Times has an excellent piece titled The Perilous Power of the Preacher's Wife that everyone on IG who posts about faith should read. I have often been taken aback by the never ending self promotion that happens among Christian female writers on IG and the cultlike status certain female Chistian "celebrities" achieve. While much of what they write is inspiring, so much seems like humble bragging and the milking of tragedy for status. That last part is exliained quite well in the article (Really, go Google it now and read.) What is most tragic is that these women are pushed into self promotion because they still live in a patriarchal religous culture they denies them the power of an actual pulpit. The piece talks primarily about evangelical women, but I have noticed the trend in my own tribe of Catholicism, among the young Catholic women who grew up in LifeTeen and have moved onto their 30s with that particular bent. Of course I could just be jealous of these folks unquestioning faith and their energy and talent to do what is needed nowadays for a woman writer to get traction. :-)
They'll be at @playtucson until 9, guys. Come out and get some dancing on. #thisistucson #secondsaturdaytucson #after7music

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