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Parenting From Outside the Box

By Emily Braden

Jackson Free Press | November 18, 2006

Wife Swap -- the show, not the passtime -- may not provide the right "fit" for every family.

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As my girlfriends and I have grown up, had babies and become busier, we've loss that hunger for all-night-long deep discussions and instead created the “Conversations Women Can Have in Less Than Two Minutes List.”

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Jackson Free Press | Emily Braden | 04-05-2007 | Commentary

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I come from "you know" people -- people who refer to all unmentionables but especially body parts the same way. With the Legislature passing draconian abortion bills, the time has come to say it plain: My vagina is angry.

Jackson Free Press | Emily Braden | 02-09-2007 | Commentary

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This ‘Mississippi’ or That One?new

Education, health, you name it. People will shrug and say, "This is Mississippi," expecting it to be the last in everything good and first at all things bad.

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What Is Courageous?new

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Mississippi State hasn't lost since last season's unnerving tangle with the Crimson Tide, and when the two teams mix it up again this Saturday, it will mark 364 days since MSU has last tasted defeat.

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