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Childhood’s Pre-postmortem
By Leslie Dinaberg
“I guess I’m really a grown-up now” is a thought that has crossed my mind a lot lately.
I think my “kid emeritus” status has less to do with the rings on my trunk — and the wrinkles on my neck — than it has to do with the inescapable passage of time.
This [...]
The Girl Who Stared Into Space
Relaxing doesn’t always come easily. Not even in the summer time.
Firing up for the fourth
By Leslie Dinaberg
www.LeslieDinaberg.com
The Fourth of July is the one day of the year when laziness finally gets the respect it deserves, which is why the fourth is number one in my book.
Despite all of the organized activity options in town—which consists of multiple parades; a musical smorgasbord of American standards, symphonies, jazz, flamenco, kid [...]
Father Knows Best
By Leslie Dinaberg
Though he spent a lot of my childhood hard at work on the football fields of Santa Barbara City College—calling plays, not mowing the lawn—and a lot of my adulthood on the golf course, playing poker, or retired on the couch—in deep snoring thought—my father still manages to provide his children and grandchildren [...]
Of Course She Doesn’t Have Kids
By Leslie Dinaberg
“A surprising percentage of women nominated to top government jobs have no children,” stated a recent Daily Beast story by Peter Beinart about Elena Kagan’s nomination and the gender make up of the Supreme Court.
That chortle you heard all the way across town was me, laughing out loud. Seriously? How can this [...]
Kindergarten Screening
By Leslie Dinaberg
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Playing “tour guide” for the parents of incoming kindergarteners this morning, I couldn’t help feeling a little nostalgic. It wasn’t that long ago that I was holding a tiny, nervous hand in my bigger and more nervous one, as we made our way to the first in a long series of school tests. [...]