July 2014

  • On Being Educated by My Kid

    It’s a common enough thought that our children teach their parents more than parents actually teach their kids. I have to say that this is one truism that rings in…

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  • eightyone.

    Dear Dadadadad, It was your birthday yesterday, and I had to skip writing you a letter because my eyeballs were square from working most of the weekend and spending a…

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  • To William, on his 25th Birthday

    Dear William,   It’s been the most change of a year yet. I know we say that often, but I truly feel that this past year was a change of…

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  • The love song and the legacy.

    The middle of the year for me, always feels like an overstuffed cushion – so much within it, to the point of bursting…an intangibly unmanageable mess. I don’t have time…

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  • The Yardstick of Nine | Dadadadad.

    Dear Dadadadad, It’s been nine years. The idea that it’s now just a skip and a little hop of a year to a full decade since I last heard your…

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