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The Real Housewives of Proverbs 31
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Diana Butler Bass
As a working mother who lives in the Washington-metro area, I admit that I’m dreading Bravo’s new program The Real Housewives of D.C. (begins 8/05). I took some comfort in the Washington Post’s scathing advance review of it: Every word of the title is wrong, except “the” and “of.” Real: What can that even mean anymore? Housewives: Remember…
Mother’s Day: Faithful Women of the World Unite!
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Diana Butler Bass
At first glance, Mother’s Day appears a quaint and conservative holiday, a sort of greeting card moment, honoring 1950s values, a historical throw back to old-fashioned notions of hearth and home. Let’s correct that impression by saying: Happy Radical Mother’s Day. In May 1907, Anna Jarvis, a member of a Methodist congregation in Grafton, West…
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