When I was about 16, my mother brought my twin sister and me into the kitchen and showed us the drawer in the counter that she had filled with condoms. We were to use them, to be safe and sensible, and to know that we knew we could come to her with any questions [...]
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From purity rings to the shoe conversation
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In no particular order, I am a mother of a teen and pre-teen, a READER, a teacher, a wife, a lover of photography, an organic gardener, a chocoholic, a dog owner and lover, a twin, a Canadian/American dual citizen, an Anglophile and a lover of puns and wordy cleverness. I love to cook with organic ingredients and am forever substituting maple syrup for sugar in all my recipes. I love absurdity in its myriad forms and strive to raise awareness of the world's omnipresent absurdity in my teaching, in my mothering and in my friending. Welcome.-

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