Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Culture

  • The Speech

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    Yesterday my homeschooled daughter threw an impromptu inauguration party at our house. It’s tough to get homeschoolers out of their houses before 9 a.m., but we had a group of six to watch the speech, then eat and play. At my son’s school, every class stopped what they were doing to watch the speech and…

  • The Good Sportsmanship Club

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    I had a moment of deja vu during John McCain’s concession speech last night. Last winter the editor of Growing Up in Santa Cruz asked me to write an article about Mount Madonna School’s girls volleyball team. They were on an amazing winning streak for a small team. (Read the article at http://www.guisc.com/viewarticle.php?id=165.) I took…

  • A Parenting Book List

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    People who know me know that I’ve had my share of challenges with my kids. They are both very bright in a book-learnin’ sort of way, which means that I seldom worry about things like test scores. In fact, I’m sure I’ll write at some point about my search for schools that are academically rigorous…

  • No on 8

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    I hadn’t done much thinking about CA State Proposition 8, the ballot initiative titled “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry”. I knew which way I was going to vote and I knew that its support statewide would be lopsided: little support here on the coast, big support in the vast conservative Central Valley. But…