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Quick Thoughts: Giving Kids An Allowance

We did it. We finally did it. And not because anyone asked either. It felt like the right time to us. That’s why, effectively immediately, the Bear will be getting $3 per week, the Mouse $1. It is important to note that neither child must earn the money, not exactly […]

Parenting Blog / Required Reading

Required Reading: Good Brother, Bad Father

If you spend any time at all on the internet, chances are you’ve come across some hideous behavior hiding behind the stiff arm of anonymity. People are more cruel here and it can sometimes weigh you down and make you think that this world wide web business is an accurate […]

Plateau Running
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Plateau Running

Comedian Louis C.K. quipped in a recent episode of his eponymously titled show on FX that at 40+ years of age his trips to the gym serve only to maintain his middling shape.  Gone are his dreams of a chiseled self.  He is, essentially, exercising to not become grotesque. To stay […]

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I Gotta Hand It To My Parents

Aside from a complete disdain for egg slicers and the sheer inability to drink milk out of clear plastic cups, I’ve got no issues. None. I religiously listen to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, so I hear a parade of folks talk to the comedian each week and every one of […]

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Santa, You’re Too Kind

For the majority of my very privileged childhood, my parents called me spoiled.  But I never felt that I deserved the tag because I rarely ever asked for anything.  No kidding.  I  just got tons of stuff.  Frankly, that wasn’t a me problem.  It was a them problem.  Yet I […]

Parenting Blog / Travel

My 2012 New Year’s Resolution

Quit chain smoking. Lose weight. Retire the Member’s Only jacket. Stop downloading porn. I rarely make New Year’s resolutions. This year though, I am. I’m making just one and it is this: To commit to a life ruled by the law of anecdotal value. Even though you are there and […]

An Open Letter To LEGO Regarding Their New Friends (And An Offer)
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An Open Letter To LEGO Regarding Their New Friends (And An Offer)

**Update, March 2013: Like the line itself, my opinion of LEGO Friends has evolved. Read all about it here.** Dear LEGO, As an influential, trusted, and beloved toy brand, you possess the unique power to initiate change, to help build a better world, and to influence the construction of fantastic […]

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2011 Christmas: Decorated (Finally)

This is the post I started writing last Thursday, with the working title “A Mild Christmas Breakdown”: I am writing this post as a means for catharsis for me because I am kinda freaking out right now. The Mouse is going through a stretch of excessive crying over tiny inconveniences […]

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