Category: Culture
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Open Studios this weekend – dig in!
Open Studios is starting this weekend, and it’s a wonderful event to take your kids to. Many areas have Open Studios, but I doubt that so many have such a huge amount of high quality in one concentrated location. I once went to hear the late Spalding Gray speak at UCSC. He said that he…
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Google me, baby!
It has come to the attention of my household financial manager (that would be me) that I don’t make enough money. Such is the state of my life. Highly educated but not so skilled in ways that make money. So my friend Heddi of the Resource Center and I got inspired to Google AdSense our…
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Ohlone Day, a local treasure…once you find it!
I wasn’t sure what to expect of Ohlone Day. I’d heard lots of people say nice things about it, but the publicity for it was lackluster, and the event-day signage was non-existent. So there we were, eager six-year-old and I, trying to find the parking lot that the salesperson in the store at Henry Cowell…
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Learning through life
OK, I know that I haven’t made a convincing enough argument. All of you, my friends, who actually feel that I’m harming my child by homeschooling her, you are just holding your tongues so that we can maintain our friendship. You think that by bringing up little criticisms, little questions, every day, you might make…
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Fat thighs to volcano climbs
Moms I know say the most brilliant things. The other day I was talking to a friend while she was changing her baby’s diaper, and we were admiring the baby’s very chunky thighs and puffy cheeks. “Wouldn’t it be great if we valued these things in women, too?” my friend wondered aloud. Then she took…