October 31, 2008
The Sand Box
In bringing our children up, I resist the Disney-fication of myth, especially as it relates to the holidays. Halloween seems the most challenging. How do we find right balance? The real content of the feast, the specter of death, is something our culture purposefully avoids? All Hallow’s Eve, the night before the double [...]
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October 13, 2008
The Sand Box
It would be quite a challenge to explain the ambivalence I fell these days toward the Red, White and Blue to my six year old son. I know to do so would be flat out wrong. Daily with his class mates he recites the pledge as I too did throughout my schooling. He [...]
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