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Monday, August 24, 2026

5 things I've learned having been a grandparent for one year

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Me, Cal, and my daughter Chloe Tomorrow our grandson Calvin turns a year old. I am not the first grandparent to marvel over how quickly time...
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Monday, August 17, 2026

My wife doesn't think my taste buds work

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I have mentioned here before that I will eat anything. Or at least I'll eat anything considered to be safe and socially acceptable. Seaf...
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Monday, August 10, 2026

My father-in-law's impenetrable fortress of security

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My father-in-law Tom has been gone nearly three years. I don't think about him every day, but it's often enough that I realize how m...
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Monday, August 3, 2026

We're working toward having minimal stuff in our house for the kids to clean out when we die

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The basement storage room in question Such a morbid headline today, and the second time in a month I've written something that makes it ...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Whatever happened to that old song, to all those little girls and boys?

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  I go through periods in which I'm very sentimental and nostalgic for the years when my kids were young. They're still "young,...
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Monday, July 20, 2026

Once our cats are gone, we're taking a break from having pets...or at least that's what we tell ourselves.

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We owned all of these guys at one point. Now only the two on the left remain. We currently own three cats: Ginny (11 years old), Molly (9), ...
Monday, July 13, 2026

It says here I'm older than three-quarters of the people I meet

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There is a website called oldfart.io  that exists solely to let you know what percentage of the population is younger than you. You just ent...