Are You There, George? It's Me, Ava.

Are You There, George? It's Me, Ava.: "Ava Lowery, a homeschooled teen activist who posts professional-quality antiwar video shorts on her website, peacetakescourage.com, from her bedroom in a small town about an hour's drive from Montgomery. Ava, whose videos have a worldwide following thanks to the blogosphere, had decided to throw her Sweet Sixteen party on the steps of the Capitol to protest the war in Iraq."

You GO girl!

ON PARENTING: As If I Were Your Mother

ON PARENTING: As If I Were Your Mother: "[A]s I was leaving my mother’s house at the conclusion of a very difficult discussion, she leaned into the car window and said, “When you have this baby, you will finally understand how much I love you.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought, and sped away."