Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her latest novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, was published by Berkley in January 2011.
Ever since the Harrold Independent School District (in Texas, of course) trumpeted its decision to allow its teachers to carry guns into the classroom, I’ve been working on a big migraine. Here’s my take on a beginning-of-the-school-year communique from that district’s superintendent: http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2854
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Makes me SOOOO happy I don’t have kids in Texas high schools.
I know. Me, too. I still have nightmares thinking that my 10th-grade biology teacher could have carried a gun. He was already totally nuts (kept talking about World War II and the “Japs”); just imagine what a little firepower would have empowered him to do.