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Thirteen years ago, I wrote a blog post titled “A Letter to My Sons” while flying somewhere over Greenland. I was on my way to work with human rights educators in Sri Lanka, and the date I wrote the letter, November 20, was World Children’s Day, the day the UN adopted the Declaration of the…
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My wife posted my blog entries on her Facebook page (I got rid my my account years ago, so her page is a primary source for channeling my writing), and, perhaps unsurprisingly, received only a few reactions. Little, if any, comments. She then posted a picture of our dog – he is cute – and…
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I was 10 years old the first time I was called an “ostie d’anglais” in 1980; I was in the fourth grade and some sixth graders bullied me because I had an English surname in a French school. The insult – along with others I won’t bother sharing – came at a time when tensions…