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Friday May 24th, 2013

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COLUMNS : CYNTHYA PORTER - POSTPARTUM (ARCHIVES)	Back to Current

A good mother in any language (05/10/2009)
	By Cynthya Porter -- As a mother I believe it is my sworn duty to expand the horizons of my children, so on a recent trip to Mexico I was determined that we would not have one of those “resort vacations” where the exten ... FULL STORY >>

Think about our identity (03/15/2009)

-- From Big Ole in Alexandria to Willie the Worm Man in Pelland Junction, communities around Minnesota have erected every manner of statue and symbol to tell passersby what makes them special.

As a free ...

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Home sweet home (07/30/2008)

-- Life's little epiphanies have a funny way of sneaking up on me in the least expected places, sprinkling in powerful "aha" moments even during the most mentally vacant points of my day.

Take, for exa ...

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Hickory dickory boom (02/27/2008)

-- I'm being terrorized in my house and I'm sick of it. Yes, I have a teen and a tween, but I'm not talking about them this time.

I'm talking about uninvited guests who lounge around and mooch off my he ...

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The itsy bitsy spider... (05/20/2007)
	By Cynthya Porter -- Nothing is quite as character-building as being a parent, especially during those moments when your kids think you can solve any problem, and you think you should be running away down the road and you ... FULL STORY >>

Your Mom did what? (07/16/2006)

-- Every year when I teach my College For Kids newspaper class, I crack up at the things kids will tell me that would probably make their parents faint.

I hear all kinds of sordid details about daily li ...

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It’s hard to be cool (07/02/2006)

-- It's not easy to be cool when you're 13. But it's even harder to be cool if you're the parent of a 13-year-old.

Granted, I don't spend much time worrying about how to impress my kids' friends, but I ...

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The smell of victory (02/09/2006)

-- After six months of teeth-gnashing and a little wild-eyed hair-pulling for good measure I think I can say it's official: I don't smoke.

And while I'd love to boast that I quit out of resolve to be h ...

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Who made me the Tooth Fairy? (04/13/2005)

-- I'd like to throttle whoever invented the Tooth Fairy.

I hate that nocturnal bicuspid-thieving creature more than any other mythical being I pretend to be for my children, mostly because I'm really b ...

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All that glitters is not gold (12/29/2004)
	By Cynthya Porter -- Sometimes we give people things for Christmas, and sometimes we give them gifts. And sometimes, lost in an endless trail of Visa bills and curling ribbon, we forget to remember the difference between ... FULL STORY >>

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