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Archive for November, 2008

DAD & BRO

Do you remember at what point you stopped calling your father “daddy”? I don’t recall the age when I switched to “dad”, but I’m almost 100% certain I wasn’t five. Recently my boy decided to try on “dad” to see how it fit, and he appears to like it. I, on the other hand, am feeling [...]

IT’S NOT OVER, NOT YET

These days it been fashionable to say things like “now all people will be judged by the content of their character” and “America has changed forever.” I’ll buy the latter argument because it’s ambiguous enough to read anything you want into it. The former, however, I have laid no false claims to. In my own experience I still get [...]

Dear Santa,

This year I’m not sure I want anything under my tree, given that Christmas came early with the election of Barack Obama as our next president. It seems a bit selfish to ask for anything more than that. Plus my son is happy and healthy and attending the public school of our dreams. Yet for some [...]