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Toast Points: The Week of Sept. 13th, 2013
Ancient Grains, Meta
Sep 13, 2013
On Monday, Mallory told us some wonderful stories from The Bible, and Jasmine told Laura Ingalls' Ma where to stick her china shepherdess.
Tuesday, both your area singles and your neighborhood proved unsettling, and we learned a lot from the creator of Tarzan.
Wednesday:
Six Excellent Reasons Not To Send Your Daughter To College
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 13, 2013
Perhaps you have seen this: a writer at Fix the Family (which, I'm sorry, is not nearly as good a name as Focus on the Family) has come up with a list of reasons not to send your daughters to college, if you have daughters and
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She Said, She Said: Advice About Job Dilemmas
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 13, 2013
Previous installments of The Toast’s newly-renamed (thanks, Adrienne!) advice column from two disparate and imperfect persons can be found here. Last time: Flirting, Deodorant, and Presents for Boys.
This is a typical Ph.D angst question! I've always known I'd get a graduate degree and classics was all I ever wanted to
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A Very Usual Kind of Girl
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 13, 2013
The thing you had to know about her, the most important thing, was that she was very much like all of the other girls. So when she moved to town, or started attending the exclusive and mysterious boarding school in the mountains, people noticed in a general sort of way, in the
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Beauty Trap
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Sep 13, 2013
“Little boys want to be heroes or scary,” says a Halloween costume expert at Dallas & Co in an NPR interview. “Little girls want to be pretty or cute.” He’s ducking questions about women and girls dressing as “strumpets.” I wonder whether he believes there is an innate distinction between what little
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Why I’m Getting A Gun
Ancient Grains, News
Sep 13, 2013
I’ve never shot a gun, but imagine I’d be really good at it. Though I may have trouble identifying your face from a few feet away, I’m also really good at most games where you aim at a target – games that some people assume require things like “visual acuity,” “depth ...Read More
It’s Friday the Thirteenth: Tell Us Your Superstitions
Ancient Grains, Magic
Sep 13, 2013
I'm sure you believe something weird. I'm relatively superstition-free, but I have close friends who are Russians, and some Russians (PLAYFUL STEREOTYPING, YOU ARE A DELIGHTFUL PEOPLE) are basically 13th century doctors in terms of their attachment to semi-magical ways to protect themselves and their loved ones from the vagaries of fate.
EXAMPLE:
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: My Last DUI
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 12, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
I am superstitious, so that "last" scares me. My last DUI, please Jesus, knock on wood, was in the late summer of 1998. I was driving a white 1968 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, Randy's "project car" at the time, home from the Dead
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