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Parenting perfection

This really is perfect. The strategy. The tone. The ability to utilize the strategy on an almost daily basis. I love t.  I’m not sure if it will still apply by the time my children are in need of this kind of coercion (we may have the Internet implanted in our brains by then), but…

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Is there be anything more tragic than a left handed kid stuck with a right handed baseball glove?

It just occurred to me this week: I am left handed. I am very clearly left handed. I have always been left handed. Yet the first baseball glove that my parents bought me as a child was for a right handed player, thus dooming my future Major League career and (more importantly) requiring me to…

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The $199.99 Wheelbarrow Sundae: Who is with me?

Mortensen’s is a restaurant and ice cream shop located on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington, CT. Years ago, I stopped at Mortensen’s for dinner with a friend and hadn’t been back since. A couple weeks ago Elysha and I brought the kids to Mortensen’s for ice cream, and since that fateful night, Elysha has complained…

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Speak Up storyteller: Matthew Dicks

Just six days until our inaugural Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. Beer, wine and snacks will be sold at the venue. If you plan on attending, please go to our Facebook invite page and let us know to help with…

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Spamming scumbag of the week: Phone Beauties

Each week, amongst the many interesting, insightful and occasionally scathing comments on my blog, I find comments by businesses and/or spammers who are clever enough to construct comments that avoid spam detection technology. I delete these comments and ban their IP address, but I know that I will be doing the same thing again tomorrow…

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Unfair assumption #9: Women who don makeup before heading to the gym are suffering from traumatic brain injury.

Women who don makeup before heading to the gym are suffering from traumatic brain injury. This is truly unfair. Just because a person does something incredibly stupid doesn’t mean that the person is incredibly stupid. I am a living testament to this rule.

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I wrote a poem. I need a critique. Please help.

I wrote a poem about my son today. I’ve been working on it for three days, including about an hour this morning. I’m ready to hear what people think. Suggestions? The second line was especially troubling for me (I’ve written it about three dozen ways), as was the transition from the second line into the…

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Ann Coulter is racing me to the finish line. I hope she gets there first.

There are days when I don’t feel like going to the gym. On those days, I think of Ann Coulter. Ann is a decade older than me (even with all that plastic surgery), which means that if I take care of myself, I have a reasonable chance of outliving her. I have never existed in…

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Television-free news

In the recent Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent death and apprehension of the alleged bombers, we did not turn on our television once. All of my news came via Twitter, which provided links to stories from reputable news organizations like The New York Times, Slate, The Daily Beast and more, as well as links to…

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