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  • Defying Gender Stereotypes

    This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time.   I’m thrilled to share this with y’all and hope that some of you participate in the contest. My friend and fellow Huntsville High School graduate, Jeremy Hilton, recently won a contest […]

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  • 12 Dear Jack: The Good Daughter

    ; Dear Jack, I don’t have a great relationship with my father. He and my mother divorced when I was six, and he became engaged to my stepmother two years later. That relationship is also fraught–throughout my childhood and teenage years, she was emotionally manipulative […]

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  • GradeSpeed: Friend or Foe?

    I think I was a freshman in high school when I got my first C-in Algebra II-on my report card.   I was sick about it. I knew I had been struggling, but I guess had foolishly hoped that when all the final grades were […]

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  • Let My People Go

    My little Stuart has a bleeding heart. He is unusually quick, I think, to identify a person or an action as being unfair or unkind and to want to right the wrong (unless it’s one of his sisters, in the which case it’s revenge, no […]

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