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Read more about the article First bottle. Probably the last bottle.

First bottle. Probably the last bottle.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 9, 2012
  • Post category:Family
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After two months of begging and pleading to “help feed Charlie,” I finally allowed my three year old daughter, Clara, to give him a bottle.   The first photograph was…

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Read more about the article Watch. Laugh. And be very afraid.

Watch. Laugh. And be very afraid.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 8, 2012
  • Post category:Recommended Reading/Viewing/Television
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I thought this was a joke. I assumed that it was a satirical outlook on the creative hazards of product placement. As an author who has been accused of product…

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Read more about the article Einstein was dumb

Einstein was dumb

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 8, 2012
  • Post category:Critic/Science/Words
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Not about many things, but about this: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” I’ve always hated this definition. I wouldn’t call it…

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Read more about the article My wife’s wedding vows

My wife’s wedding vows

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 8, 2012
  • Post category:Autobiography

Last month, in conjunction with our upcoming anniversary, I shared some posts I had written about our wedding in 2006. Those posts originally appeared on a blog that no longer…

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Read more about the article Curmudgeonly thinking

Curmudgeonly thinking

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 7, 2012
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I loved this quote from a New York Times opinion piece by Oliver Burkeman, who has a book coming out entitled “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive…

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Read more about the article My wedding vows

My wedding vows

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 7, 2012
  • Post category:Autobiography

Last month, in conjunction with our upcoming anniversary, I shared some posts I had written about our wedding in 2006. Those posts originally appeared on a blog that no longer…

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Read more about the article My boy!

My boy!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 7, 2012
  • Post category:Family
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My father-in-law has somehow made my little boy look a lot older than his smidgen-over two months. I swear he does not look this grownup yet in real life. 

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Read more about the article Three packages arrived last week. Only one was creepy and sexually inappropriate.

Three packages arrived last week. Only one was creepy and sexually inappropriate.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 6, 2012
  • Post category:Books
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On Friday the first copy of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND arrived at my door, wrapped beautifully and accompanied by a note from my editor. It was the kind of…

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Read more about the article Prepare to cry

Prepare to cry

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 6, 2012
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I will show this video to my students in hopes that it will have the same effect on them that it had on me: It will remind them how fortunate…

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Read more about the article Maybe yoga isn’t such a good idea after all.

Maybe yoga isn’t such a good idea after all.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 5, 2012
  • Post category:New Year's Resolutions/Quandry
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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to give yoga an honest try. After reading Lee Anne Finfinger’s The 10 things you’ll do once you start yoga (that have nothing…

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