Words matter. These are the best Laura Moser Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
You have to follow that next step.
I was a campaign widow.
The celebrity’s desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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.
Grit can’t be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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.
We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
It’s a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn’t a red state: It’s a nonvoting state.
New York City has an integration problem.
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.
Don’t most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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.
Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It’s not the path to glory, but it’s absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
As more and more minority groups fill our nation’s classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that’s a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
Houston’s one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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.
Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
I’ve always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
Wishy-washy equivocations – and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality – weaken all of us.
I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
I believe in following opportunities.
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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.
In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he’d spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they’d experienced together.
I don’t claim any great experience or expertise.
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.
