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Aug 28, 2010

But the kid wants a new one with a favorite television character splashed in gaudy colors from top to bottom and sometimes even with a water bottle to match.

Aug 20, 2010

Hanson didn't get any useful advice, but listeners that day - and now everyone across the country - were given the opportunity to examine the question of race in America.

Aug 13, 2010

"Oh, I have one of those gates you're talking about and it is across the doorway," she responded. Well, then, how come her little boy was still underfoot?

Aug 07, 2010

After looping around several  roadblocks and navigating past one-way streets, that weren’t headed in the direction I needed, I finally came to a parking structure, pulled in and promptly had to head back out.

Jul 31, 2010

Passing the buck is a great strategy, so I asked Sherry Goodloe, a AAA instructor for its Teen Driving Program

Jul 24, 2010

But maybe my daughter is just old-timey, like her mother. Just maybe Momsen and the damsels riding down Crenshaw Boulevard are the essence of tomorrow's women.

Jul 17, 2010

I had to respect my grandmother; no back talk, no eye rolls, courteous at all time and obedient no matter what her position on any matter. But geez!

Jul 10, 2010

"Drama; she's an actress, ain't she?" said the girl from the `hood who further said Lohan's sentence for continuous probation violations didn't hardly measure up to the punishments her "mama" used to hand down.

Jul 04, 2010

"How come nobody even talked to you?" one of my kids wanted to know, way back in the day, after a trip down to a school board meeting.
"Public comment," I answered dryly. "Not public debate."

Jun 26, 2010

Makes one wonder about the classroom behavior of the very young graduates with parents who engaged in the brawl, since we know kids are prone to emulate that which they are exposed to.