Now that John Edwards has withdrawn from the race for President, I’m planning on voting for Barack Obama.
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No more coffee or diet soda during pregnancy: Too much caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage, a new study says, and the authors suggest that pregnant women may want to reduce their intake or cut it out entirely. I’m sorry, but this old saw has been around for years, and I don’t [...] Never, ever tell a child you think the school district will call a snow day till you receive a confirming email. It wasn’t pretty. It was 65 and sunny today in New York. Driving in my car with the windows down, I suffered from geographic dislocation. I kept thinking I was driving east down Beverly Blvd, toward La Brea. But then I would look up and see the Hudson River and the Palisades, not the snow capped hills surrounding the L.A. basin. And [...] The latest trend is outsourcing is in wombs.
That’s right. Baby brokers are matching up would-be first world parents with Indian women desperate to earn enough money to raise their families out of poverty. A full-on parenting package, which includes everything from the cost of [...] I confess to utter bafflement when it comes to the emergence of Joni Mitchell’s wonderfully depressing song “River” as a Christmas standard. So I enjoyed reading this article in TNR about how it all came about. Of course, I am probably not one to talk. A few weeks ago, my older son asked me to sing [...] Can we all agree to leave this poor woman alone already? It’s enough. At a dinner last winter with my writing partner and her husband, I said that when it came to the next presidential election I would bet on an African American man over a woman any day. Needless to say, I stand by my prediction. |
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