Matthew Dicks – Page 519

Another argument against the death penalty

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 9, 2013
Post category:History/Politics
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I don’t support the death penalty because I think it’s barbaric, but more importantly, it endangers the lives of innocent people. Human beings are fallible. The justice system makes mistakes.…

Another Speak Up date added to the calendar

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 9, 2013
Post category:Speak Up Storytelling
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Please mark your calendars! Again! Our next Speak Up storytelling event is on Saturday, September 28 at 7:00 PM at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the…

Stay calm.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 9, 2013
Post category:Family
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My daughter spent about 15 minutes this morning looking for Bear before finding him (or her) in the bottom of the toy box. “I don’t want Mom to know I…

Bare-breasted women are perfectly fine but Dicks was offensive?

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 8, 2013
Post category:Current Affairs MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND items Quandry
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Though my most recent novel, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND, is published in England (and doing quite well), I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting the country. But it has…

My daughter loves butterflies and tarantulas.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 8, 2013
Post category:Family Teaching Words
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As I was driving my four year-old daughter to preschool, she revealed that her two favorite insects are butterflies and tarantulas. I know. She explained that she loves butterflies…

When I started working as a wedding DJ in 1997, the world was damn near prehistoric.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 7, 2013
Post category:DJ
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My partner and I started our DJ business 17 years ago on a whim. We had no experience and no equipment but thought we could make it work. Since 1997,…

The toughest question of the year

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 6, 2013
Post category:Teaching
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As a teacher, I am asked hundreds of questions a day. Occasionally I am asked a question that is so new, so strange or so challenging that I make note…

A lesson in bubbles

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 6, 2013
Post category:Family
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Watching my daughter teach my son something new is just about as good as it gets.

A pill that reduces the amount of sleep that a person needs? Blasphemy!

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 5, 2013
Post category:Autobiography
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Slate’s Matthew Yglesias reports on the economics of a new drug called Modafinil, which appears to let people get by with much less sleep than they do today. When I…

Anatomy of agreement

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:July 4, 2013
Post category:Food and Drink Idea
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First I see Slate’s tweet: The American way of using a fork and knife is inefficient and inelegant. Here's a better way: http://slate.me/11MPniB I’m annoyed. The piece already sounds trite…