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A few weeks ago, a reader of this blog wrote to ask me what I thought about the use of “the r-word” in movies. She wrote about a movie where one scene includes a joke about the word “retard.” In her words, “I found the movie in it’s entirety funny even when one scene made…

I have a new post on The Park Forum: “Work: A Curse or a Blessing?“

When my husband was in college, he and his roommates were captivated by Christian asceticism. “Beat my body and make it my own,” was one of their mottos. This discipline mostly translated into not sleeping much and fasting from meals on a regular basis. It seemed a bit silly to me at the time. “Honor…

I’m planning to write more about “the R-word” (and even the designation of the word retarded as “the R-word”) next week. For those of you interested in more reading right now, I’ll commend to you Louise Kinross’ comments on BLOOM: “The R-Word: It’s a Hateful Slur That’s Got to Go” and “The Tyranny of Two…
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