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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

To my children: Just pick up the blanket

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I was down in the basement a few minutes ago, and I was disheartened to find that one of you has, yet again, left a blanket on the floor. ...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

The time suck of social media

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I always thought that once I bought an iPad, I would become one of those social media ninjas who tweet 75 times a day, comment on 47 friends...
Friday, July 26, 2013

These, believe it or not, are your finest days

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If you don't mind, I'd like for you to read a quote I've lifted from a novel called "Water for Elephants." It's a ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

This isn't a post about baseball, it's a post about me being an emerging curmudgeon

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According to this article from The New York Times , fewer and fewer people score baseball games by hand anymore. The funny thing is, many ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Four relatively easy things you can do to improve your writing

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I don't claim to be Ernest Hemingway (or Ernest Borgnine, for that matter), but I can do a passable imitation of a competent writer. W...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Assessing the decision to have five kids

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A few times in the history of this blog, I've written about the subject of large families . How you define "large family" is...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

I stopped understanding rap about the time of Run DMC

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I just took a look at the Billboard "Hot 100" pop chart . Do you know the last time I looked at the Hot 100? It had to have been...