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Archive for August, 2009

READING: MORE FUN THAN THE PARK?

p>I can’t figure out if it’s a great thing that my son is reading in the park, or really sad. Notice that on a bright summer day there are pretty much no kids hanging out. Could it be that they are home preparing for the coming school year? Or is it more likely that they [...]

DEV & I STILL TALK, BUT THE TOPICS SURE HAVE CHANGED!

p>Yesterday I was sitting in the kitchen with my laptop, my wife was at the stove cookin’ up some Cajun shrimp and Dev was hanging around. Well, he was closer than I thought…
“Daddy, who’s Jennifer?” He was looking over my shoulder as I checked the Facebook folder in my email. Jennifer was part of a [...]

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY

I know we are all busy. For some reason people in this country (at least those of us in the Northeast) think that every minute of every day should be filled with stuff. If we have a minute we start to wonder why we didn’t book it, then to make sure that it’s covered we [...]