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The irrefutable wisdom of a three year-old
Do you ever accidentally forget how you’re truly supposed to be living? This is how you do it: In case it’s not clear, that’s The Attitude, running through the yard, surrounded by bubbles. And if...
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Mastering the Not-Day: The Tuesday that isn’t, the Monday that never was
It’s one of those days. Yesterday, all of us worker types effectively won at Monday by spending Labor Day avoiding labors and instead lounged lazily in a scene of Greco-Roman-style excess. You know...
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An actual text message I actually texted to my actual wife
The Puddinette and I have a pseudo-regular habit of exchanging a few mid-morning text messages after finally settling into the day’s routine. We generally recap the events of the kind of daily...
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New Year’s Day 2013: A brief look at the year to come
It’s early afternoon on January 1, 2013. After another raucous celebration to usher in the next 365 days, people everywhere are a slowly, determinedly getting themselves into motion, while trying very...
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A funny thing happened at bath time Saturday night
I have long said that I generally assume my blog readership consists of my wife and my mother. And I guess my dad and my mother-in-law, too, maybe. That’s got to be about it, though, right? Well, it...
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Stopping to smell the flowers, err, hop aroma
Have you ever noticed that everybody nowadays seems to have lists and lists of stuff they’re actively checking-off to feel like they’re, you know, accomplishing those ever important “life goals”?...
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Postscript: In Defense of Aquaman
It never ceases to amaze me how every time I start with something small and intentionally shallow, I end up contemplating it hours later in a completely different way. Case in point, yesterday’s post...
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Repost: The journey of self-improvement, starting right, uh, tomorrow
[Author's Note: I'm taking the week off from writing new material, more or less, because, well, because. So instead, I'm going to repost a couple of old entries that may or may not have a thematic or...
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Filling my Monday with a little Wild Rumpus
I probably should be inside at the computer concocting some long-winded, spittle-flinging, cockle-searing rant about how the kids these days don’t appreciate all the NSA snooping my tax dollars are...
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It turns out I’m not perfect. Neither are you. And that’s okay.
Sometime between 10:30 and 11 PM Monday night, I made the entire world stop around me—kind of like Hiro could do on that show Heroes?—so I could fix a problem with the poem I posted in honor of the...
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Thirteen Years and Counting
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think 13 is an unlucky number and should be avoided like giant hornets lest bad things occur, driving you to sink into the Pit of Despair,...
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To NaNo, or not to NaNo?
Since the beginning of the month—well, more precisely since I wrote this post—I’ve been plague by the question titling this post. Should I or should I not fling myself out of the proverbial perfectly...
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A Little Time Off The Routine
There’s a pretty good chance I’ve written enough times about the vital importance of keeping a young, largish family like ours affixed to the regular weekly schedule that you’d rather hear me pitch...
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A Helpful Guide For Navigating The Weekend
The picture above contains a popular brand of carbonated soft drink. Well, it’s also of my desk earlier today, and the door to my office. And a window showing sunlight and the outside world where I...
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A funny thing happened at bath time Saturday night
I have long said that I generally assume my blog readership consists of my wife and my mother. And I guess my dad and my mother-in-law, too, maybe. That’s got to be about it, though, right? Well, it...
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Stopping to smell the flowers, err, hop aroma
Have you ever noticed that everybody nowadays seems to have lists and lists of stuff they’re actively checking-off to feel like they’re, you know, accomplishing those ever important “life goals”?...
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Postscript: In Defense of Aquaman
It never ceases to amaze me how every time I start with something small and intentionally shallow, I end up contemplating it hours later in a completely different way. Case in point, yesterday’s post...
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Filling my Monday with a little Wild Rumpus
I probably should be inside at the computer concocting some long-winded, spittle-flinging, cockle-searing rant about how the kids these days don’t appreciate all the NSA snooping my tax dollars are...
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It turns out I’m not perfect. Neither are you. And that’s okay.
Sometime between 10:30 and 11 PM Monday night, I made the entire world stop around me—kind of like Hiro could do on that show Heroes?—so I could fix a problem with the poem I posted in honor of the...
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Thirteen Years and Counting
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think 13 is an unlucky number and should be avoided like giant hornets lest bad things occur, driving you to sink into the Pit of Despair,...
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