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Happy Pride Month!

love is love BLOGI’m grateful that my kids have grown up in a time and place when being openly LBGTQ+ is more widely acceptable than it was when I was growing up. When I was in high school, “gay” was a common insult and being out was scary, dangerous, and almost completely unheard-of.

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As if we needed another reason to love spring: My take on Persephone and Demeter

As a kid, I was completely obsessed with Greek mythology (this was before Rick Riordan make it cool). Somewhere in the depths of my grandfather’s basement I found two books from apersephone larger hardcover set: The Myths of Old Greece, copyright 1898. I received many, many more books over the years but those were always my favorites.

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