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Do you have a Plan B?

May 23, 2017June 1, 2010 by shay subscriber

I imagine that a few of my regular readers are going to write back after reading and tell me what a Debbie Downer this post is and how they will never ever deal with anything that I am about to describe. To you I say goodie gumdrops and come back another day; as for me …

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Categories Feminism/Womanism, Money, Random babble, Relationships Tags finances after divorce, women and money

Free Your Kids!

May 23, 2017May 31, 2010 by shay subscriber

Parents, it’s time…we really must free our kids and allow them to be kids with the understanding that we are raising them to one day become adults. I have often spoken on this blog about the differences in raising elder boy who is now 18 versus his sister mini me who is 4. There is …

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Categories Parenting, personal growth, Random babble Tags Free range parenting 5 Comments

Cowardly New World

May 23, 2017May 27, 2010 by shay subscriber

What follows is my most recent column from the Portland Phoenix May 28 issue, enjoy! I know that the ancient Mayan calendar indicated the world may go and end in 2012, but I doubt it. Instead, let me illustrate how bad it might get, starting in that year. Tucson, Arizona — April 7, 2012, 7:18 …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural, Random babble Tags race relations, racism 4 Comments
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