Loud and Clear Book

	Preface	xix
1	Heart
	Good-bye Dr. Spock	9
	Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids	17
	Doing Nothing Is Something	23
	No Privilege for Parents	29
	In Search of a Grown-up	35
	Playing God on No Sleep	40
	Playing Perfect Patty-cake	46
	Mom Quixote	51
	Now It's Time for Generation Next	56
	Daughter of the Groom	62
	Fall from the Nest	67
	The C Word in the Hallways	72
	School's Out for Summer	78
	A New Roof on an Old House	84
2	Mind
	A Quilt of a Country	98
	Staring Across a Great Divide	104
	The Widows and the Wounded	109
	Welcome to Animal House	115
	The Drug That Pretends It Isn't	121
	The Problem of the Color Line	127
	A Conspiracy of Notebooks	133
	Happy Leader, Happy Nation	139
	It's the Cult of Personality	145
	The Sins of the Fathers	151
	Lead Us Not	157
	The Right to Be Ordinary	161
	The Power of One	167
	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	172
	17 Going on 18	178
	The Call from the Governor	183
	Indivisible? Wanna Bet?	189
	The Sounds of Silence	194
3	Body
	The Reasonable Woman Standard	206
	Barbie at 35	212
	Say Farewell to Pin Curls	217
	Our Radical, Ourselves	222
	An Era Ends	227
	And Now for a Hot Flash	232
	Sexual Assault, Film at Eleven	237
	And Now, Babe Feminism	243
	Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha	248
	The Lone Pilgrim	254
	Say Good-bye to the Virago	259
	Not a Womb in the House	264
4	Voice
	The Key to Success	276
	The Story of Us	287
	Off with Their Ties	296
	Oh, Godot	303
5	Soul
	Life After Death	318
	Anniversary	323
	Leg Waxing and Life Everlasting	332
	Watching the World Go By	338
	Aha! Caught You Reading	344
	With a No. 2 Pencil, Delete	350
	Poetry Emotion	355
	In Memoriam: One Real Pip	360
	Imagining the Hansons	366
	Everything Is Under Control	372
	Honestly--You Shouldn't Have	378
	Armed with Only a Neutral Lipstick	384
	Weren't We All So Young Then?	390
	Look at What They've Done	396
	One Day, Now Broken in Two	401
	We Are Here for Andrea	406
	Every Day, Angels	411