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Read more about the article Near death is a gift. If you survive, of course.

Near death is a gift. If you survive, of course.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 7, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Recommended Reading/Viewing
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Steve Jobs' third story is the one that means the most to me. And he’s right. It is the way in which I live my life. Sadly, I become more…

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Read more about the article Watership Down’s Hazel is a glorious but sadly unrealistic nonconformist

Watership Down’s Hazel is a glorious but sadly unrealistic nonconformist

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 7, 2011
  • Post category:Books
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The protagonist of Watership Down is a rabbit named Hazel. Undersized and lacking in strength and speed, he nevertheless leads the rabbits from the doomed Sandleford warren to safety and…

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Your title sucks, and your ideas about food are sexist and condescending

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 6, 2011
  • Post category:Books/Food and Drink
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My wife came home with this book today: The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat On Your Man (in the Kitchen): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love!…

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Read more about the article Clothing adds at least five pounds.

Clothing adds at least five pounds.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 6, 2011
  • Post category:Family
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I found this in my closet this morning. Apparently my daughter is bestowing concerns about weight and body mass index upon her toys.  She’s growing up so fast.  

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Tilly and the Wall: Who needs a drummer when you have tap shoes?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 5, 2011
  • Post category:Family/Music
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I often claim (with excessive pride) that I have introduced my wife to more positive things in her life than she has introduced to me. Television shows, friends, activities, locales.…

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Read more about the article Ready for fifth grade

Ready for fifth grade

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 5, 2011
  • Post category:Family/Teaching
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My wife and my daughter were in the car behind a motorcycle rider without a helmet. My wife was explaining to Clara how dangerous it is to ride on a…

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Read more about the article Extreme teaching, including home invasion and theft

Extreme teaching, including home invasion and theft

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 4, 2011
  • Post category:Teaching
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An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled School Reform, Chicago Style described a school district’s policy of providing habitually tardy and absentee students with a wake-up call each morning.…

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Read more about the article Kissing tiny feet

Kissing tiny feet

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 3, 2011
  • Post category:Family
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Each night, as she listens to my wife read to her, I lift my daughter’s tiny feet from my wife’s lap and kiss them. She smiles at me. Sometimes she…

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Everything dies. I get it.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 3, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography
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The relatively young, previously healthy tree in my front yard appears to be dying for no discernible reason while the identical tree about twenty feet to the left is perfectly…

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Read more about the article Don’t trust a good name when it’s too good.

Don’t trust a good name when it’s too good.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 2, 2011
  • Post category:Critic/Quandry
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I distrust convenient names. For example, does anyone else find it a little too convenient that the fastest man in the world is named Usain Bolt? Bolt? C’mon. Doesn’t this…

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