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Since September, my family has experienced an unusual barrage of schizophrenic divisions on personal and global levels -- our kids’ schools, the subway series, the election, and Christmas/Hanukah overlap – each of which raised unique parenting dilemmas, the kind they don’t write about in those "What to Expect" books. Because our daughters are 3_ years apart, we are now in [...]
It was bitter cold, about 2 pm on a Wednesday afternoon, and yet people were waiting in a helluva line: it wrapped from the entrance on Fifth Avenue around the corner onto 88th Street like a caterpillar stretching its limbs. The line was full and restless. Photo by Miles Aldridge, 2000, of woman's evening gown, fall/winter 1997-98 People bought hotdogs [...]
