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  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Flying in America: Indignities in the name of security

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    "If you're wearing a belt, I highly recommend that you remove it!" a man in uniform shouted over the heads of the civilians standing obediently in front of him. "That's rich," a man in the crowd muttered to his wife. "He says 'recommend,' but he means 'do it.' " "Folks, I'm telling you,"...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Billy the Wonder Dog has his moment in the snow

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    "Oh look at how fat they are!" "They really are lazy! They're falling lazily from the sky, as people always say!" "Let's go make a snowman!" cried the youngest child. "The thnow ithn't thick enough yet," said her older sister. It was her first day wearing a new retainer on her teeth, and...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: The best laid plans require proper timing

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Mar 2, 2013

    "How long are you going to be, Madam?" "Oh, about an hour and a half," I said gaily, handing the nice valet driver my keys. In a triumph of personal organization, I had actually managed to get from the suburbs to the Willard Hotel in time to attend a lunchtime speech. It is not an easy...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Waiting for ... well, just about everything

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    "When's dinner?" Honk. "When I get back from dropping your sister at dance class." Honk. "Can I eat something now?" "Have an apple if you must, but otherwise wait until I get back for a real dinner." Honk. Honk. "I can't wait, I'm starving!" said the child, but she grabbed an apple...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Fat, bored and nearly dead? Juicing could be the thing for you

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

    It wasn't the bleak winter weather that inspired a friend of mine to live differently, nor a New Year's resolution, nor even an uneasy sense that coffee every morning and red wine every evening was not, perhaps, the ideal system for maximum health and mental efficiency. "No, I just got bored,"...