Not Saying Every Thing

on August 10, 2016 at 8:24 am ×

Still learning how to be decent, how to hold back to make the future and present tense better so that nothing gets lost.

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I had a great idea recently. It likely came to me as I prepared to take a physical exam or possibly during the family holiday that followed. Maybe there were even two of them, great ideas that is, but I couldn’t tell you about either. When I was a younger […]

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What Fear Looks Like

on July 7, 2016 at 9:32 am ×

You’ll have to forgive the lack of scenery and character development in this short anecdote, but years ago I was walking the hallways of a shopping mall with a man who had previously exhibited racist tendencies and was, in that moment, in the midst of making a racist remake of […]

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Making The Case For The Summer Slide

on July 5, 2016 at 10:35 am ×

Remember when summer was all about games, puzzles, playing outdoors, being creative, staying up late, sleeping in, running through sprinklers, watching TV in the a/c, and making new friends in camp? Remember when summer was about childhood exploration, riding bikes, reading books for pleasure, trading baseball cards and enjoying a […]

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In Support of Those Who Support Those Battling Depression

on June 30, 2016 at 6:28 pm ×

The text came in while you were traveling, heading to or away from another airport. That’s not too important. The hat was missing. Tears and hysterics came through your phone in rapid succession, catching you off guard and adding a hazy level of faraway drama to the day. You had […]

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Of Sharks and Watching Shark Week with Roku

on June 29, 2016 at 1:33 pm ×

The passing of time is marked in any number of ways; notches on a door frame, the size of shoes in the doorway or by the bags of outgrown clothing waiting by the door to be donated to Cradles to Crayons (and later, to Goodwill, when your children eventually age […]

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How We Got Rid Of Mosquitoes And Learned To Love (Our Backyard) Again

on June 22, 2016 at 2:54 pm ×

“I’ve got 12! Wait…13!!” “1, 2, 3…8, 9, I think I have 9 bites. Darn.” Baseball is my sport of summer but for my two daughters, a competition of another sort has developed over the years as these two outdoorsy girls make a nightly tally of mosquito bites to see […]

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The End of School Means The End of Routine Photo Contest and Giveaway

on June 14, 2016 at 9:42 am ×

This post is sponsored by Pure Protein. All thoughts and opinions expressed below are honesty and unbiased, as always A lot of parents, too many parents if you ask me, mourn the end of the school year and cheer on the dawn of the next. You probably have, or will […]

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