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Friday, June 13, 2025

Cable TV taught me never to become a counselor at Camp Crystal Lake

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I'm not sure of the exact year, but at some point in the early 80s, I got a cable-equipped TV in my room. This was like the hitting the ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

When you see a number on the bathroom scale you don't like...

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One evening a month or so ago, I decided to weigh myself. This isn't an especially remarkable occurrence except for two things: It would...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Here's what I've noticed about going to the gym: Everything is heavy

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"Yeah, that's the idea," you probably said to yourself upon reading the headline of today's post. But hear me out. I know ...
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Friday, June 6, 2025

The day-to-day stuff that makes a marriage

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Today is our 33rd anniversary. We were married on June 6, 1992, nearly one-third of a century and six U.S. presidents ago. Relationships, pa...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

My conversation with the protein muffin in the refrigerator

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ME (opening fridge door): Hey. MUFFIN: Hey. ME: So I'm probably going to eat you. MUFFIN: What? ME: I'm probably going to eat you. Y...
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Monday, June 2, 2025

We're going to have a wedding in the family

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  Recently my son Jared proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lyndsey, and she said yes. None of this was a surprise to us. It was eventually ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Thanks to my youngest daughter, we built our collective family vocabulary, five words at a time

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Until recently, on many weekday mornings, my daughter Melanie would pop into our family chat with a text that looked something like this: Mo...