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Time to parent up. Nobody told you to have kids. Hey, I bet people even discouraged you, but you did it despite the warnings. You must not have listened when friends told you what crappy parents you’d make; you did the fertility treatments anyway and low... More »
by Mary Cappelli, MFA, JD, PhD Recently at my very liberal high school in West Los Angeles, I was called into the Administration because a student complained about the use of derogatory descriptions of the Congolese people in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darknes... More »
by Mary Louisa Cappelli Every Fall I’m asked to write letters of recommendation for students seeking to attend a private college or, in some cases, out-of-state public university. So, I spend my weekends writing these creative pieces detailing the brillian... More »