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My children visited a bookstore on the last day of summer. Their behavior was shocking.

We spent the last day of summer on the Connecticut shoreline. Among our choice of activities was a visit to our favorite bookstore, R.J. Julia in Madison, Connecticut.   Elysha and I once spent hours in bookstores, but when our children entered our lives, that changed. We tried for a while to do some tag-team…

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My daughter’s favorite library is not a library

My wife agreed to bring my daughter to her favorite library yesterday. “The one with the stage and the trains,” she said. The main branch of the West Hartford public library has both a stage and a train set in its children’s section, so naturally they went there. Upon arriving, Clara said, “We’re going to…

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