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NO CHRISTMAS FOR YOU!

The world moves too fast for my liking sometimes. Not that I can’t keep up, I can thank you very much, but more that I like having a second or two for analysis. At the office you have to be able to do both and in general I can do that too (though I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]