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Gone Fishin’
Well, it’s possible, at least. I’ll be kicking back for a while, maybe swing by an ol’ swimmin’ hole in the land of great barbecue. Or toss the canoe on the river out back. And if I’m not devoured by...
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
It was an adventurous summer. I mean, we saw the Cahokia Mounds. For real! With the kids! What kid wouldn’t be enthralled by the sight of a large mound and the knowledge that, hundreds of years ago,...
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Danged If You Don’t, Danged If You Do
Here are some things I did not do at lunch yesterday: • I did not place a complicated order that required food preparers to vary from what was on the prescribed menu. • I did not take more than two...
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The Girls and a Country Song
Confession time. I’m a country music fan. (If you still say “and Western,” please give my regards to 1980.) The music, at its best, actually says something. And in recent years it had gotten pretty...
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Freewheelin’
Another thing that happened this summer was that the training wheels came off my younger daughter’s bike. Unlike her older sister, who cannot hide her slightest emotion, Lucy tried to harden her face...
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Alive Again… sort of
Easing back into my former role as a professional adult, I will be performing at a charity “Story Slam” next week. And not as Captain Dad, but in my old New Yorker cartoonist identity. If you happen...
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Merry Christmas
From my family to yours (and I know you’ve got one!), may you all have a joyful and blessed Christmas season. And may we all learn from the redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge, who “knew how to keep Christmas...
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Do You Have Any Dreaded Events? Go Fish!
What parent doesn’t look forward to a school event that practically guarantees each kid a live animal as a prize? Hooray for the Winter Carnival! This cherished occasion is held each year on a bleak...
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