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Timiny Braemer strikes me as fearless.  Friendly?  Yes.  Kind?  Yes.  Also fearless.  “No question!” laughs her buddy, Daphne Butler.  “And she is so darn capable.  If she wanted to, Timiny could run a Fortune 500 company, hike the Matterhorn with…

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J.K. Rowling’s latest is perfect for a May graduate and – as a sidenote – might be just the encouragement you need yourself in a harried month.  Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination is…

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It’s pretty outside – sure – and we’ve got our own special Sunday, but May is a hot mess for mothers with school-age kids. Coping mechanisms include exercise, an extra glass of wine, and complaining.  I’ve tried all three over the…

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Author Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir in verse about growing up African American in the 1960s and 70s in South Carolina and New York.  If you…

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