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Mystery machine

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 15, 2017
Post category:Quandry
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The Scooby Doo gang was pretty presumptuous to name their van The Mystery Machine.I realize that they encountered an uncanny and irrational number of criminals trying to cover up crimes…

Teaching is full of unexpected surprises

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 14, 2017
Post category:Moth Teaching
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One billion years ago, I taught a third grader named Kaity to multiply. Last night, as Elysha and I were leaving for a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, I asked Kaity, now…

TEDx Pomfret: It’s Not the Curriculum

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 13, 2017
Post category:Storytelling
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Last year I spoke at a TEDx conference in Pomfret, CT on the subject of education. Specifically, I spoke about what is important and what is not when it comes…

A serious commitment to golf

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 12, 2017
Post category:Sports
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I've played golf in the rain many times. I've once played golf in the snow. To be fair, it wasn't snowing when we started the round, and the forecast hadn't called for…

An untimely poop and a blocked toilet lead to magic.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 11, 2017
Post category:Autobiography
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I grew up next door to my grandparents. They owned a small house at the top of a hill on a sprawling piece of farm and forest.My childhood home was…

My favorite billboard

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 10, 2017
Post category:History/Politics
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The billboard is up on Southern Boulevard, which is one of the only streets that links directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.With Hurricane Irma now battering Florida, my thoughts are with…

I am not talented.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 9, 2017
Post category:Autobiography SOMETHING MISSING Items
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I don't believe in talent. I believe in hard work. In speaking to a writer recently about her struggles to get published, I said, "Maybe you should write another book. Not everyone…

When you tell your girlfriend via text that you wrote her a poem…

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 8, 2017
Post category:Recommended Reading/Viewing
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... but it's actually the theme to The King of Queens. Brilliant.

A sad, retired, perhaps unstable man

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 7, 2017
Post category:Autobiography
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My friend, Rob, retired last year.Like my previously retired friends, Rob has attempted to rub it in with photographs of his endless vacation. But unlike my previously retired friends, who send…

My son thinks I’m a golfing god

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 6, 2017
Post category:Sports
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I haven't beaten one of my golfing buddies in well over a year. I've been drastically altering my grip and swing, but I'm also just not as good as the…