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the 2nd best and most important job ever
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Britton Gildersleeve
Two of my favourite things — actually four, if you include the ‘zen’ and ‘pencils’ as material objects… :). Teachers & poetry. And if you include social activism on behalf of teachers? You have knocked that homer out of the PARK. Because only family makes a bigger impact on a child than his or her…
the blame game, compromise, and windows
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Britton Gildersleeve
Yesterday I overdosed on politics. I read blog after article after news piece after FB post. Ugh. I was left more than slightly nauseous, and wondering how American politics came to such an ugly place. Of course I have my own interpretation of what’s going on, but what saddens me is that politics now seems…
theories: empirical and not-so
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Britton Gildersleeve
Total science nerd here. I adore science. Really — every year I buy the Best Science Writing 20-whatever. Or else my husband gets it for me as a present. 🙂 If I had my life to redo, I’d probably be a scientist. Or at least write more about science. Which may be why I’m ambivalent…
mouthy middle-aged white chicks…
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Britton Gildersleeve
I freely admit I’m a loudmouth. AND political, to boot. Not to mention an engaged Buddhist, and a wannabe Unitarian. Which is to say, a total bleeding heart liberal with a big vocabulary. (As distinguished from a knee-jerk liberal — NOT what we like in my family.) This is not a good thing in some…
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