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    Articles by Sarah Smiley
    Sarah Smiley: Mixed feelings about online grocery shopping
    Sarah Smiley: Mixed feelings about online grocery shopping
    By Sarah Smiley • February 4, 2016 1:23 pm

    I am at a crucial point in my life, a moment when I know, with absolute clarity, that things will never be the same again: Our local Hannaford supermarket just debuted online shopping and curbside pick-up. I might never go inside a grocery store again.

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    Sarah Smiley: That time I ordered the wrong pizza
    Sarah Smiley: That time I ordered the wrong...
    By Sarah Smiley • January 21, 2016 1:05 pm

    I’ve been truly afraid a few times in my life: when I bungee jumped from a perfectly good platform 110 feet up in the air; When we lived in Florida and I put out mouse traps but caught a coral snake instead; When I got on an airplane for the first time in more than a decade; When I moved across country while eight months pregnant; And last week, when I ordered pizza from the wrong restaurant to feed my hungry teenagers.

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    Sarah Smiley: Are kids too busy for homework?
    Sarah Smiley: Are kids too busy for homework?
    By Sarah Smiley • January 14, 2016 6:42 pm

    Have you heard about the “new” movement against assigning homework to children? I use the term “new” loosely because kids have been anti-homework since roughly the beginning of mankind, and parents balking at the nightly ritual is nothing new either. In fact, every decade or so, this issue gains momentum again after a new academic book or editorial is published.

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    Sarah Smiley: Meeting the Amish on their turf
    Sarah Smiley: Meeting the Amish on their turf
    By Sarah Smiley • January 8, 2016 3:14 pm

    This fall, I wrote about serendipitously meeting a group of Amish women at our local office supply store. The women, all teachers I presumed, were making photo copies of lesson plans for their students. I was also making photo copies for students – my college-level mass-communication students.

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    Why we still love snow
    Why we still love snow
    By Sarah Smiley • January 7, 2016 1:20 pm

    Until I moved to Maine in 2008, when I was 31-years old, I had never seen more than a few inches of snow, and then, only when on vacation. I had a lot to learn, like: Why would anyone rake anything off their roof (“It looks so pretty with snow on it!”), and why don’t people in the North use ice in their drinks (they just put the glass of soda in the snow for a few minutes)?

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    Citizens’ Police Academy educates, inspires
    Citizens’ Police Academy educates, inspires
    By Sarah Smiley • December 29, 2015 10:47 am

    A few weeks ago, I went to jail. A few weeks after that, I graduated from the Police Academy.

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    Sarah Smiley: Star Wars Episode VII heralds new phase
    Sarah Smiley: Star Wars Episode VII heralds new...
    By Sarah Smiley • December 15, 2015 2:38 pm

    My house does not have Barbies, nor does it have a doll house or little plastic ponies. For most of my experience as a parent so far (minus a few years), my house has been filled with toy creatures whose names I can’t pronounce and that I don’t particularly like to look at. Banthas, jawas, and tauntauns — these are the things that impale my bare foot in the middle of the night as I shuffle toward the bathroom.

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    Sarah Smiley: The draft for women just became more likely
    Sarah Smiley: The draft for women just became...
    By Sarah Smiley • December 7, 2015 1:11 pm

    On Dec. 3, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon will open all military combat roles to women. Finally, women are eligible to do any job a man can do in the military. Young girls, their mothers and Women’s Rights advocates cheered.

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    Sarah Smiley: On being grateful for the ordinary
    Sarah Smiley: On being grateful for the ordinary
    By Sarah Smiley • December 3, 2015 1:12 pm

    Our family’s road trip to Virginia began the way these things normally do: We planned to be on the road by 7 a.m., but we were actually packed and in the car by 3. We had forgotten socks for Ford and pajamas for Owen, and no one remembered to fill the car with gas the night before.

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    Sarah Smiley: In defense of not-so-smooth husbands
    Sarah Smiley: In defense of not-so-smooth husbands
    By Sarah Smiley • November 24, 2015 4:56 pm

    This weekend I danced in the local Dancing for the Stars charity event. My husband, who was in the audience with my three sons, didn’t bring flowers, and it sort of made me fall in love with him all over again. No, you didn’t read that incorrectly.

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    Sarah Smiley: Week three of Lindell’s dramatic loose-tooth watch
    Sarah Smiley: Week three of Lindell’s dramatic loose-tooth...
    By Sarah Smiley • November 20, 2015 4:09 pm

    There are two types of kids: those who eagerly rip out each loose tooth, even before its time, and those who let loose teeth live in their mouth until the skin attaching them to the gums mostly shrivels up. The crown is left spinning on its axis with each thrust of the tongue or even the slightest breath, and every father everywhere is compelled to ask, “Want me to tie a string around that thing?”

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    Sarah Smiley: Risky carrier landings and the hidden stories of veterans
    Sarah Smiley: Risky carrier landings and the hidden...
    By Sarah Smiley • November 12, 2015 1:27 pm

    Lindell joined the Navy in 1971. No, not my son Lindell, but my dad, also named Lindell, which makes writing that first sentence really weird.

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    Sarah Smiley: The Drop Off Zone (Plus, flip-flops with socks)
    Sarah Smiley: The Drop Off Zone (Plus, flip-flops...
    By Sarah Smiley • November 5, 2015 1:55 pm

    Imagine, if you will, a mother driving her teenage son to school. The mother is wearing Velcro rollers in her hair and has breakfast in her teeth. She’s driving like a 3-year-old playing Mario Kart because the teenager is mad that he is late.

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    Sarah Smiley: Questions answered about women and the draft
    Sarah Smiley: Questions answered about women and the...
    By Sarah Smiley • October 22, 2015 3:33 pm

    Last week’s column about women and the draft, and specifically readers’ responses to it, raised many questions. I answer them below.

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    Sarah Smiley: The Draft: Don’t worry, your daughters are still safe
    Sarah Smiley: The Draft: Don’t worry, your daughters...
    By Sarah Smiley • October 15, 2015 1:46 pm

    If the words “Selective Service System” don’t ring a bell for you, it might be because you’re female. Maybe you have all daughters, too. For American boys and young men, however, “Selective Service” means “the draft,” and, yes, they still have to sign up for it.

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    Sarah Smiley: Basement as a time capsule of memories
    Sarah Smiley: Basement as a time capsule of...
    By Sarah Smiley • October 1, 2015 3:49 pm

    We have never lived anywhere long enough to need to do a deep clean. And when I say “deep clean,” I’m talking about throw-out-broken-furniture-and-bags-of-old-clothes type of deep clean.

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    Sarah Smiley: The mistakes of motherhood are inevitable
    Sarah Smiley: The mistakes of motherhood are inevitable
    By Sarah Smiley • September 17, 2015 3:07 pm

    Last month, Cherish Peterson, 27, left her 2-month-old son in a shopping cart outside an Arizona grocery store. According to Peterson, it was an accident. Her routine was off, and her three other children had distracted her. Also, you know, she just had a baby two months ago.

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    Sarah Smiley: Encounter with the Amish at the copy machine
    Sarah Smiley: Encounter with the Amish at the...
    By Sarah Smiley • September 10, 2015 2:05 pm

    I did not expect to see any Amish people during a recent trip to the local office supply store. Partly this was because I didn’t see any buggies outside. Mostly, however, it was because I had some misguided notions about Amish – notions like they’d have no use for a store that at least in part caterers to users of technology.

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    The one who calls himself Ford Smiley
    The one who calls himself Ford Smiley
    By Sarah Smiley • September 3, 2015 1:53 pm

    Ford and I were checking out a book at the public library. Wait, let me rephrase that. Ford was checking out a book; I was his driver.

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    Participation trophies: good or bad?
    Participation trophies: good or bad?
    By Sarah Smiley • August 27, 2015 2:22 pm

    James Harrison, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, last week sent back his sons’ trophies because they were the dreaded kind, received only for participating in a sport.

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