Category: Culture
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Santa Cruz Families March for Women… and all of us
Interviews by Suki Wessling Photographs by Abe Jellinek Click on photos to see them full-size. If ever all of Santa Cruz gathered for a big family photo, this would have been the day. On January 21, the day after the inauguration of a president that Santa Cruzans overwhelmingly voted against, whose platform contradicts nearly every…
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The great hunt
Each year my family awaits the December holidays for a number of reasons. One of the major ones involves tramping around hillsides like this one: Searching the forest floor, which looks like this: for a certain sort of gold, otherwise known as chanterelles. Here are a few that we found today: They don’t look like…
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An Indecent Man
This blog is not about politics, but it is about parenting. And all parents know that sometimes it’s uncomfortable to do what’s right.
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Movie Review: Everything would be fine if you just got over that homeschooling thing….
So much for hoping for a good homeschooling movie. I don’t think a movie has ever gone so wrong in the last few short minutes than this one did. The ending of this movie seems more intent on sticking it to anyone who has ever tried to live up to their ideals than on faithfully…
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Book review: Raising Human Beings
Greene’s approach is to teach parents to work with their little human beings starting not from an assumption of misbehavior, but from a place of empathy and compassion. Our little human beings are works in progress. They need our guidance to learn how to work within this complicated, confusing world. As parents, it’s our job…