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Pop culture craziness always provides good insights into my tweens’ collective mentality. The Will Smith…
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The voices of enraged white guys like me are echoing from every artificial wall of…
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My family charged into a new COVID routine more than two months ago. We’ve reached…
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Call it quarantine induced boredom, or call it starved Jordan fandom, I primed my kids…
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