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Learning the Ropes About Sailing, and Life, From My Father
By not in system - AOL News(June 19) -- We weren't a family that raced -- we sailed. We never had a fancy boat; the biggest sloop my father ever had was 30 feet long, and he shared the ownership with one of his friends. But every summer we went to the coast of Massachusetts near Fall River, the mill town where he grew up. And the first thing on the list was to go down to the boat yard, where I was in charge of sanding and varnishing before we put the boat in the water. On our kitchen wall was a tide chart that we had to learn, since our summer house sat on an estuary strewn with sand bars. I know the river; I have ...
Good Parent or Smother Mother? It's a Fine Line
By Ria Misra - Politics DailySandra Tsing Loh's article on motherhood in this month's Atlantic has kicked off quite a discussion among my colleagues, Melinda, Lynn, Delia and Lizzie, about what makes a good parent. But, if we could set aside questions of parental quality for just a moment, I want to talk about something a little easier to measure: quantity -- namely, too much parenting. Loh references Ayelet Waldman's book on motherhood, "Bad Mother," early on, mostly to complain that Waldman, as a mother, is too good, with far too model a family to deserve the moniker. But it was a quote from the book written by the ...
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