Samantha Wilson on January 3rd, 2010

I was captured this Christmas by a story that really wasn’t meant for me.  It wasn’t created for a woman in her forties, who survives on being a true realist.  Where learning is a compulsion and there is little time left in my day for fantasy.     
To add to the disbelief that I have gotten myself [...]

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Samantha Wilson on December 14th, 2009

The next time you’re hurrying to pick up the kids from soccer or stumbling off to work early in the morning, think about this:
It was a cold January morning in 2007, in Washington, DC, in the Metro Station. A man with a violin played six Bach songs for 45 minutes, serenading about 2,000 early-morning commuters [...]

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Samantha Wilson on December 6th, 2009

I was walking through a mall the other day, hot, tired and frustrated at not being able to find Pokemon cards which my son stated he “just had to have” – when suddenly, I saw it.
Displayed perfectly in the crystal clear glass window of a popular tween clothing store was the outfit of all outfits. The [...]

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Samantha Wilson on December 5th, 2009

You may have seen the TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras, which follows families as they travel from pageant to pageant. It’s not the five year olds wearing heavy make up, skimpy costumes, and false eyelashes that I find most disturbing. It’s not even the overbearing stage moms. What’s most disturbing is the danger I feel these [...]

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