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I have a friend who travels quite a bit. She’s married, with two kids. I called her once just as she was getting ready to head out on one of her three-day…
Those little pangs of nostalgia and twinges of longing I sometimes get for my children's babyhood are always squashed completely at times like this, when…
Compared to many of my friends and peers, I feel pretty lucky. Sure, it’s completely superficial, but while many of my buddies are slowly (or even rapidly)…
I was supposed to have a meeting today. A meeting I would have had to tear out of early at noon sharp, so I could race across town in time to pick up my…
On Monday we had to make the difficult and painful decision to have our cat put to sleep. We had been wrestling with the very idea of having to make a decision…
Much has been written recently about the fact that my generation is the first to financially fall short of my parents' generation. As a dad and – more…
Well, I did it. I posted my motorcycle for sale on Craigslist. It doesn’t matter that I’ve only ridden it once in the last year. Or that I’ve ridden fewer than…
We moved into our current home and neighborhood just over a year ago. We truly love it here, and nothing brings this fact home to me more than when I walk the…
Saturday morning I walked into the kitchen just in time to see T. lugging an enormous and very full carton of Trader Joe's vanilla soy milk out of the…
This is the time of the semester when one of two things usually happens: my students either kick their study habits and attitudes into high gear and become…