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Hate, Violence and Talk Radio

May 20, 2013by Val Sanford 1 Comment

Yesterday I started a blog post about hate in response to a statement by a radio talk-show host.  He wanted to shoot Hilary Clinton in the vagina and watch her […]

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personal, Violence Against Women, women
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My Ask: Support The Future

May 15, 2013by Val Sanford Leave a comment

Last week the Seattle Girls School held their annual luncheon.  680 people RSVP’d and while I know we didn’t fill every seat, we ended up with about 600 parents, alumni, […]

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education, leadership, Middle school, women, Work
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Wonder Women! | Documentary about Wonder Woman and Her Legacy | Independent Lens | PBS

April 16, 2013by Val Sanford Leave a comment

Saturday morning at 3:55 am, 20 April 2013 you will find me in the basement with a cup of coffee and my MacBook Air, trying to remember why I set […]

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education, movies, women
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Elizabeth Blackwell, Pay Day Loans and LivingSocial

April 15, 2013by Val Sanford 1 Comment

  My personal inbox is overrun with offers to save me money, offers for me to spend money, pleas for contributions, the normal amount of SPAM.  Buried in the dozens […]

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Family, friendship, Genealogy, women

Reading The World

March 10, 2013by Val Sanford 1 Comment

My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Manolakas, would read to us each day.   After lunch, in the heat of the So. California afternoons, she would read and transport sleepy, unruly 10 year […]

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Books, Montreal, tel aviv, Travel, women

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Do a little more of that work which you have sometimes confessed to be good, which you feel that society and your justest judge rightly demands of you. Do what you reprove yourself for not doing. Know that you are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with yourself without reason. Let me say to you and to myself in one breath, Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your soil. - Henry David Thoreau

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