What did you do in the class wars, Mommy?
October 16, 2011
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
When I was a junior in high school, everyone in the honors history class had to write a term-long in-depth research paper. Always someone to bite way more than she could chew, I picked “The 60s” as a topic (a wee bit unfocused, no?).
Really what I was interested in was the cool-looking...
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Nine eleven
September 11, 2011
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Everyone remembers the beauty of the day. Everyone’s story starts that way. If you were anywhere in the northeastern United States, you remember the crystal blue, the perfectly dry sunniness.
I was taking secondborn to his first day of preschool. Normally I am not sentimental about milestones,...
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It’s Hawaii Week!
August 08, 2011
Filed in: Hawaii, Kansas, The Home Front
Along about January or February or possibly as late as March, when it became clear that the 50th State project was pretty much dead in the water and T wasn’t going to get a job before the severance ran out and the health care self-pay wasn’t going to drop below $800 per month, I penciled out this...
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“What has happened to middle class America?”
July 11, 2011
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
This piece in the Times pretty much freaked out my weekend, or at least my Saturday: Job Growth Falters, Clouding Hope for Recovery.
Scary stuff, for us personally but also for everyone (well, not you top 1% earners, y’all just carry on).
One of the things I’m interested in is the way it’s...
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Now Our Lives Are Changing Fast
July 04, 2011
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
These days my kids are both listening to Arcade Fire—you know, the indie Canadian band that stole the Album of the Year Grammy out from under Eminem and Lady Gaga.
Normally I’d be proud of them for their alternative leanings, but AF’s latest album, The Suburbs, cuts too close for me,...
