That's what mine says, Barb. Also, most publishers (of fiction) use M-W for house style, so you might want to pick one up.
I could have sworn I had one, but all I could find was the American Heritage. I'm thinking I'll definitely go pick one up in the next couple of days. Thank you, dear!
I just realized mine is ... from ninth grade. I won it for some essay. Oops. And yet e-mail is in there! Wow.
Interesting to hear all the scar/injury stories. I don't have anything dramatic - mostly the dings from day to day living.
Although Hil's shock from alfredo sauce had potential - I was envisioning something involving a dish of electric eels, which led to her becoming vegan. This may be the first time my imagination's been more interesting than reality.
Oops. And yet e-mail is in there! Wow.
That's because ninth grade wasn't that long ago.
Glenn Beck begins Vermont Teddy Bear ad by trashing Mother's Day.
WTF? That's just . . . weird.
Allyson, that's wonderful news. Congrats!
This seems like it might be an interesting read. [link]
The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of "San Francisco liberals." But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate.
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Naomi Cahn and June Carbone -- family law professors at George Washington University and the University of Missouri (Kansas City), respectively -- suggest that the apparent paradox is no paradox at all. Rather, it is the natural consequence of a cultural divide that has opened wide over the past few decades and shows no sign of closing. To define the divide in a sentence: In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults form families.