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Jan.10.2013
We leaned against the double doors, prying them open as a chilly gust engulfed our faces. It's a sensation to which I've grown accustomed—the sharp contrast between a gym's pungent humidity and the cold desolation of a January night.
The basketball game had ended ten minutes previous, yet my...
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Jan.01.2013
"Dad, you're not fat, you're just overweight."-Zoe, my seventeen-year-old daughter
January 1, 2013.
I slowly awakened, exhaling gratefully. My relief was palpable, and I mumbled a silent oath of gratitude that I hadn't actually attended a Styx concert in my backyard, naked on a blanket while...
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Dec.27.2012
They heard a short electrical buzz inside the machine and saw movement through the light. A hand grasped the edge of the doorway inches from where Millie had first touched it moments ago. They all backed up a step and were ready to flee for their lives on a moment’s notice, when a lovely...
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Dec.21.2012
(Some of my 4th graders at the Christmas play - I so appreciate them now!)
Like a shooting star
Flyin' across the room
So fast so far
You were gone too soon
You're part of me
And I'll never be
The same here without you
You were gone too soon
Shine on! Shine on!
You were gone too soon...
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Dec.17.2012
We sat and watched as he read their names.
The kitchen was a sugary mess, the house thick with the aroma of the fudge and bon bons my wife and daughters had been baking, when the president came on TV.
And he read their names. All twenty of them.
There was Dylan and Emilie, there was Olivia and...
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Dec.04.2012
This Christmas season couldn't have happened at a better time.
I hadn't realized how profoundly burned out on politics I am right now. Plus, you know, Romney has gone away. He's probably lounging on a tropical beach staining his teeth with so much Strawberry Crush, he could play the lead in the...
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Nov.28.2012
Will Bing and David make the list?
Do you even care?
We'll see. I feel fairly qualified to build this compilation since I've been watching this stuff for fifty years now (Yeah, still freaking out quite a bit about that number.).
This roster is heavily back loaded with shows from the Sixties...
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Nov.25.2012
"...the second reason I love Christmas season is because it has amazing food. For example, cookies, hot cocoa (technically it's not a food), turkey, ham, peppermint bark, etc. And I love these foods especially because they are filled with butter, cream, fat and sugar. C'mon, let's not act like we...
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Nov.23.2012
The leftovers are consolidated, stored in plastic, pushed to the back of the fridge.
Turkey sandwiches went out the door, when the kids packed up and headed back to school.
The car's filled with snacks, winter clothes, and comforts from home
forgotten back in August.
The house is silent,
except...
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Nov.14.2012
I was sitting at my desk, eating pineapple out of a plastic container when I received an email telling me that my friend John had died in an accident.
We can never predict what thoughts will pierce our consciousness after being blindsided with such traumatic news, and I remember calmly...
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