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Thursday December 12, 2013 · 8:18 PM PST

2013/12/12 · 20:18

Not for myself--my husband has pretty good insurance through his job--but for a former student of mine.

Background: my former student recently moved to the US in an attempt to make a better life for her son who's 7 and has autism. She was my student 19 years ago when I taught high school English in the Philippines. She's in her mid-30s, lives alone here though she's married and has 2 kids back home.

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 11:52 PM PST

2012/11/06 · 23:52

Thank you to everyone who wrote a diary, who reached out to even a single uncommitted voter, who reminded people to vote and to vote early when they could, who gave a dollar here or there up or down ballot.

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Monday November 05, 2012 · 7:19 AM PST

2012/11/05 · 07:19

I grew up in a very Catholic country, and studied nearly my entire academic life in Catholic schools and universities. "Abortion is a SIN " had been drilled into my head from the time my peers and I were considered old enough for The Talk. I always believed I'd never have reason to commit such a Sin, since I attended (unusually, for my home country) liberal Catholic schools where we were told that birth control methods exist, and we ought to be smart enough to choose the right ones for us.

Yet little more than two years ago, I had an abortion.

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 · 7:25 AM PDT

2012/10/17 · 07:25

I have precisely one conservative friend. (I could have more, but I've allowed many of them to fall by the wayside not because of politics, but because life's gotten in the way.)

During last night's debate, a mutual friend (who's as liberal as I am) commented on FB that she couldn't watch--it was too stressful for her. I commented to the effect that our guy was doing quite well.

Our conservative friend jumped in with the comment, "Doing well by lying?"

I went through approximately five minutes of dithering between bringing up the lying that the "winner" of the last debate had done, reminding her of her one-time fervent support of Rick Perry at one point in the last year, and a whole bunch of other responses that would pretty much kill our friendship.

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