Acting Out May 24, 2012 Tags: parenting Maybe intervention isn’t always the answer. Saoirse and Ula are three years apart. Saoirse, 8, is unusually tall, slender, well-spoken, and comes across to grown-ups as particularly well-behaved and extraordinarily poised. Ula isn’t any of those things. At 5, she’s about a foot shorter than her sister, demonstrates […]
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Gainful Unemployment
Gainful Unemployment May 16, 2012 Tags: gainful unemployment Life without a job can be full of profitable ventures. It was just getting dark the night of November 1st, 1999 as I locked my bike outside my Ithaca apartment, walked inside and learned from my roommate that Bob had been trying to reach me. He was […]