Choosing To Be Child-Free

Whether or not to have children is a complicated, personal choice. Still, many who decide to forgo baby bottles and cradles in favor of pantsuits and suitcases face judgment from peers. This hour, we’ll talk about with Meghan Daum, the editor of “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.”

Career, pantsuit, suitcase,

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The Career of An Actor

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/93a339b2-b7a6-4992-8bef-55fbdbde9860/KERA_Think_3-22-07_HR_2.mp3 We’ll spend this hour with veteran actor Bill Paxton. A native of Fort Worth, Paxton famously set out for Hollywood at the age of 18 to get his start. He succeeded. Paxton is in town for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. He appears in the new film “The Good Life” which screens at the festival and which he also Executive Produced.

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