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A terrible, awful, very good day
I was 2.5 hours late to work yesterday morning. I took a kid to a doctor’s appointment in the morning. The appointment was a half-hour long and an hour round-trip from home, so part of my delay to work was planned. Then, just as I was headed out of town for my 22-minute commute to…
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You’re both winners!
When I was a child, my mother had the most irritating habit of ending any competition between my brother and me by exclaiming enthusiastically, “You’re both winners!” Jeff and I are intensely competitive, even now – perhaps because we could never settle who’d won anything. Parenting is often a series of extremes, picking and choosing…
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Atten…TION!
My dad is a former Marine. There were lots of Marine-isms in our house growing up. We marched. We know the Marine Corps Hymn. We can “sir, yes, SIR” with the best of ’em. We know the difference between a rifle and a gun. As in, “This is my rifle. *grab rifle* This is my…