Opposable Toes
2014-03-13 – I’m not much for bragging, but I have one talent that fills me so with pride that I can’t even help myself. So here it is: I […]
Tag Archives: Family
You Are Required to See Yourself As If . . .
2014-03-11 – The invitations are out and accepted. We will be hosting the Passover Seder again this year (April 14, which was my father’s birthday—of blessed memory). This after […]
A Cache of Science Fair Boards
2014-03-09 – My wife Kit was cleaning out a closet yesterday and found a pile of science fair and history fair projects. The glue has dried out and the pieces […]
Assassination by Laughter
2014-02-23 – I have a hard time with laughter. Not yours. Mine. My laughter. I have a hard time with my own laughter. If I laugh out loud and long […]
Groundhog Day
2014-02-02 – I shoveled snow again yesterday. Friday they were predicting as much as a foot of snow, but I shoveled, maybe, four inches. When I heard the forecast yesterday, […]
Cold Fingers
2013-01-26 – I am typing now to try to get some circulation back into my fingers. Pat yourself on the back for being my frostbite remedy. Yes, it snowed […]
My Brother’s Keeper
2014-01-12 – A favorite idea, at least in the popular press, is that kin selection tends to make us cooperate more with close family members and compete more with […]
Lefty is a 3-Legged Dog
2014-01-09 – Lefty is a three-legged dog. Now don’t get upset. He has four legs but, in weather like we’ve been having, he walks on three. And it’s not always […]
Going Cold Turkey
2013-12-26 – It’s the morning after. I still can barely move. The scale is up four pounds. It doesn’t even make sense based on the number of calories I ate—and […]
Slalom for Dogs
2013-11-17 – The north and south boundaries of the east half of our neighborhood park are marked by a line of posts, separated six feet on center. The posts are […]
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