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On Familial Obligation in America

Parker Shipton wrote a book entitled The Nature of Entrustment, which deals with the action implications of trust (“entrustment”) and of intergenerational and intra-familial obligation, among other things.  Although his book, which I’m only halfway through, focuses on western Kenya, … Continue reading

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On Professional Life, with Special Reference to Mothers

Anne-Marie Slaughter recently wrote a long article in the The Atlantic, entitled ‘Why Women Still Can’t have it All’.  It describes the difficult dilemmas and decisions that professional women (and men) have, trying to combine their responsibilities to their jobs … Continue reading

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An Ongoing Saga – this time, dementia

A year or so after my father died in 1994, my mother took up with a man whose wife had been her bosom pal prior to her death not long after my father’s.  My mother and her partner have been … Continue reading

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