Because Cooley is busy getting the school year off to a good start and my daughter, Sydney, is heading to college, my going away gift became having my daughter as my co-host this week. Inspired by the piece "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, Syd and I discuss all kinds of parental advice and all the ways society tries to get girls to behave themselves! Since "Girl" is particularly short, we've included a reading of it right in the podcast (28:55). If you want to skip right to the discussion of "Girl", it begins at 32:00. Hope you enjoy this meandering and maternal Back to School Special!

Intro & Outro music:

"grapes_-_I_dunno" by spinning merkaba/ccMixter

Licensed under Creative Commons: Free for commercial use with attribution

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Cover Art: Jake and Sydney Herrick