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November 5, 2008
Winning and losing gracefully
This morning when I walked L. into his classroom, the atmosphere was almost electric. The kids were grouped around computers, the screens filled up with the red and blue images of the electoral maps--the same images that are now burned into my brain, after hours of staring at them myself last night (I stayed up until 1:00! I haven't stayed up until 1:00 a.m.--without a child being involved--in years). [more]
November 4, 2008
Vote for the kids today (and then eat cookies)
Four years ago today, I left our local polling place, pushing ten-month-old T. in her stroller, with four-year-old L. beside me. I distinctly remember (as if it were yesterday, really, and not four years ago) telling L., "Next time we vote, you'll be EIGHT and your sister will be FOUR!" It seemed almost unimaginable to me, my four-year-old boy being eight some day, and my baby, who at that time was only four months post-surgery, being a great big little four-year-old girl. [more]
