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on July 31, 2021 at 8:37 am ×
I received compensation and coupons from Entenmann’s® to facilitate this blog post. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Entenmann’s® My wife and I are from a part of the world were those tasty, often colorful adornments regularly found atop ice […]
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on August 12, 2020 at 2:35 pm ×
This story is sponsored by Dick’s Sporting Goods. All opinions expressed below are honest, unbiased and 100% my own. It’s mid-August. It’s brimstone-hot outside and the a/c is gasping for the air we need it to keep pumping inside. The summer is both in full force and winding down, and […]
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on August 17, 2019 at 6:56 pm ×
This post is sponsored by FIVE STAR®. All stories and opinions expressed below are honest and unbiased, as always. I put a bow on my own high school career in 1993. Back then, being bullied over my weight and teased about my lack of luck with the ladies was confined […]
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on August 15, 2017 at 11:43 am ×
Not to be all ‘doomsday clock’ on ya, but…we’re running out of time! Sure, it’s super hip these days for parents to share memes that eagerly count down to the beginning of the school year and we all make quips saying that we can’t wait for school buses to take […]
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on August 30, 2016 at 1:01 pm ×
This post is sponsored by Pure Protein. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I’ve said it before but it remains a fact worth repeating, a flag I’ll proudly keep on waving: I’m not one of those back to school cheerleaders. Don’t get me wrong; I dig the shopping, the […]
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on August 16, 2016 at 11:15 am ×
My girls went back to school this week…well, they went back to school yesterday and are back at home today because the a/c in many of their school’s buildings and rooms is out of commission and it’s 94 degrees here in southeastern Pennsylvania, so…….no school just as school started anew. […]
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on August 18, 2014 at 2:09 pm ×
No. Don’t even think it. This is absolutely not the start of a daily “Here’s what I packed my kids for lunch at school today” series of cheery overachieving posts. I’m not nearly that committed…or creative. And certainly not that cheery. As my high school teachers, every single one of them, […]
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on July 8, 2014 at 11:42 am ×
The week of July 7th, it turns out, is when the big red button was pushed. Somewhere, maybe in a boardroom, or in a committee pre-meeting about the actual meeting but before the follow-up meeting to discuss what was discussed during that very same meeting, or possibly in a sterile, […]