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A Fight You Cannot Win
My mother still has Grandmother’s current cake recipe on a 3×5 index card. Remember those? They’re little cards with lines on them that one wrote on with this magical implement called a “pen,” and which fit neatly into small metal boxes–boxes in which ancient kitchen wisdom was passed down from generation to generation. Some of [...]
Why Your Teen is an Emotional Mess
We parents are often stymied by how a teenager can turn a papercutter into an emotional crisis.
Honest-to-your-favorite-deity, the Goth one day had a total meltdown over a missing piece of a papercutter. Which HE was the last one to use.
Who knew papercutters were such emotionally hot-button issues? I would have guessed postage stamps, myself. They [...]
