As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

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Categorized in : Children Life Fear Environmental

Beto's like a Beatle. I mean, there's like Beto-mania.

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politics

I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.

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which walk always miles

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

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You have to follow that next step.

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follow step you next

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.

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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

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me age young said

I was a campaign widow.

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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

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Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.

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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

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try myself change happy

Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

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here proud country people

My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.

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thoughts i-am me waiting

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

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you care beauty people

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

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I believe in following opportunities.

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