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Politics

With More Kidnap Victims Found in Captivity, Elizabeth Smart’s Timely Message

May 7, 2013

Amidst the crazy, incredible news yesterday where three missing women were found to have been captive for up to 10 years, my mind kept going back to Elizabeth Smart and a news story about remarks she made before the news in Cleveland broke, when she said that abstinence-only education hurts women. That wasn’t exactly how [...]

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Disregarding the Backlash and Embracing Lean In

April 3, 2013

Lean In has been called polarizing, and that’s one of the more moderate criticisms. The general backlash is that this is a wealthy woman with a Harvard education telling other women they are failures if they don’t aspire to be CEO and outsource child rearing. I haven’t read the book yet, and after hearing Sheryl [...]

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Understanding Maternity Leave in California (2013 Edition)

March 11, 2013

Today marks the start of my third, and final, maternity leave.  My baby girl is due in just a couple of weeks.  With each of my babies, deciding when to start leave, how long to take leave, and when to return has proven more difficult than actually getting pregnant.  This year, with an online tutorial [...]

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It Takes Many Voices Together to be #LouderThanGuns

January 28, 2013

Some time in fourth grade, we were tasked with writing a letter to a politician on one of the sample subjects from which we were to pick. I chose gun control and wrote a letter to Sen. S.I. Hayakawa (a Republican, which says how long ago this was) asking that guns be banned because they [...]

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One Million Moms for Gun Control…and The Goonies

January 25, 2013

While there’s a big rally for gun control in Washington, D.C. this weekend, San Francisco is hosting a casual stroll. One Million Moms for Gun Control is trying to bring supports together this Saturday morning at Crissy Field. Supporters are asked to make signs and wear their hearts on their sleeves – or anywhere else [...]

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Together We are Louder Than Guns

January 24, 2013

Social media told most of us about Sandy Hook. Twitter and Facebook carry messages and break news faster than the news, and each time, we note how powerful social media can be. It’s about so much more than documenting what you ate for breakfast. One of the positive responses after Sandy Hook, beyond love flowing [...]

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Did You Talk to Your Kids About Sandy Hook?

December 17, 2012

On Friday morning when I heard the news coming in on Facebook and Twitter about *another* school shooting, I honestly tried to pay as little attention to it as I could.  The first 24-48 hours of the news cycle on these events seems to be filled with lots of speculation rather than facts.  I get [...]

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Kidpower’s Tips for How to Talk to Kids About School Violence

December 14, 2012

Instead of our regular fun activity suggestions for the weekend, we’re going to end this week with wise tips from an organization we strongly support. Kidpower is a local group that helps educate children, parents, schools, and other adults on how to use their own power to be safe and build confidence. In times of [...]

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Making Sense of the Electoral College

November 7, 2012

This morning, my son was thrilled to hear that Obama has won another term as President.  His third grade teacher had moved up their lesson on government to align with the election, so the class was very much involved.  They even had their own mock election on Monday. His teacher had talked a little about [...]

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Why We Won’t Join the Boy Scouts

October 9, 2012

When I was pregnant with my first son, a gay friend asked me how I would feel if my son told me he was gay.  My first reaction was that I’d be thrilled.  Gay men love their mothers.  But when I really thought about it… when I thought of the experiences of my GLBT friends [...]

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