family – April Fox

April 6, 2016

Quit Complicating Your Kids’ Questions About Gender and Sexuality

Every time legislation is passed that has anything to do with civil rights, things like being allowed to marry or use the bathroom in peace or whatever, people start using children as proxies for their fear and lack of understanding. It spreads like a rash across social media, this epidemic of made-up conversations kids are…

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December 20, 2015

Have A Very Goopy Christmas, Take Two

I posted yesterday about my new blog, Math Makes Me Poop, but apparently I was still suffering from Almost-Christmas-Break Teacher Brain and the link I tried to post didn’t actually work. So let’s try this again: here’s a post from the new blog. I hope you like it. Have a Very Goopy Christmas | Math…

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December 19, 2015

Kids are Weird, Man.

Edit: Now with a real, live, working link to the new blog! Sorry about that. Some of you might know that when I’m not writing, I’m teaching. This year, I’m working with a brilliant, hilarious, adorable kid I call Little G, and I’ve created a new blog to chronicle some of our adventures. We do…

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September 28, 2015

Asheville’s Helpmate Hosts a Vigil to Help End Domestic Violence

A portion of the royalties from my latest book, Spine, will be used to benefit Helpmate, a local non-profit organization that helps women and their children who are in, escaping, and recovering from domestic violence situations. There’s a popular myth that women stay because they love their abusers and think they’ll change. That is certainly…

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October 5, 2014

Sarah.

My sister-in-law died this morning. We used to have the most ridiculous late night conversations, cracking up from behind our computer screens hundreds of miles apart, and then turning the corner into more serious territory, talking about raising children and weathering the storms of married life and what it was like to struggle through life…

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June 30, 2014

The Always “Like A Girl” Commercial Tackles Gender Stereotypes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs Feminine hygiene products aren’t usually known for being empowering. They serve a purpose, sure, and those of us of the womanly persuasion are certainly grateful that they exist in their modern form, but they’re not exactly thought provoking, beyond “Hmmm, is today going to be a Super day or an Ultra day?” This commercial…

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June 29, 2014

Rosemary, Remembered

Rosemary glanced at the clock on the wall above the bed and thought, inexplicably, of how she disliked her name. She’d grown used to it by now, but still it struck her as old-fashioned and silly. When she was a child, growing up among the countless Jennifers and Ashleys and Patricias and even a few…

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February 19, 2014

Barbie: Taking Our Daughters to the Dark Side, One Pink Stiletto Step at a Time

When I was a kid, playing with Barbie was a given. Little girls played Barbie, little boys played G.I. Joe, and once you all hit about twelve, your moms quit allowing you to play with both of them together because dammit, Barbie’s not a hooker. But maybe she is. I’ve heard a surprising number of…

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January 15, 2014

Zoey, Shining

I’m looking through old things to read at an event coming up, and I found this, written three and a half years ago. Zoey, Shining there was a star- a tiny one. it blinked in the darkness, looking down at the world trying to find a home. the clouds were thick, the rain fierce and…

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November 30, 2012

End of November

you can’t make this stuff up (i mean you could with a little imagination and if you drank just the right amount of cheap, cold beer before you settled in to think but it wouldn’t be real then and this is) -as real as it gets without shoving over to the other side where it…

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