Once upon a time, before the boy, I lived on a country road just outside a medium-sized town in Western Pennsylvania.  Our family lived on an acre of land–huge-seeming to a child–with two maples, a crabapple, a line of pines (with one fabulous Douglas fir), a few leftover plum and pear trees from an ancient [...]

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Dear Bristol Palin,

First of all, I hope you’re not reading this, because if you are it means that you Googled yourself and made it through too many pages of hurtful, scarring rumors and outrageous judgments about you, your family, and your choices.  I am sorry on behalf of all of us–Republican, Democrat, Independent, Blogger, and Pundit–that the [...]

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Yes.

I’ve always loved Bitch Ph.D, so I was a little skeptical about her decision to change her format to include a number of (female) voices aside from her own (would it go all newsy and lose its edge?).  I have been incredibly, pleasantly surprised.  So far M. Leblanc is my regular fave, but dig this [...]

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