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Sand Traps in my Comfort Zone!My kids say I am a sucker for anything labeled “New” in the grocery store.
And my husband knows that I count season’s tickets to the theater or the symphony more as obligations than as “dates.”
So I am not exactly chained to my comfort zone. But I hadn’t truly been outside of it for a while. I am happy to report it’s refreshing out there! Refreshing the way a quick dip in a cool pool is refreshing – hard to do at first, but oh, how good it feels once you’ve done it!
As I think about the third third of lif...
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A Book of Her OwnMy daughter, Sarah, is a better feminist than I. Stronger, more consistent, and angrier. That puts her out of step with many of the women of her generation (she’s 34) who reportedly take the hard-won advances of our generation for granted. She sees those same hard-won advances as meager, sometimes even illusory, and at best personal rather than systemic. Her goal is nothing less than the wholesale overhaul of human rights such that they are accessible to and equitably manifest in one and all in every aspect of daily living, regardless of gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, income, o...
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