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Read more about the article Cardboard Tube Fighting

Cardboard Tube Fighting

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 10, 2012
  • Post category:Sports
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Cardboard tube fighting, the game that I played with my brothers and sisters when we were kids, is now a thing. There is even a Cardboard Tube Fighting League. The…

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Read more about the article Just when everything was going so well…

Just when everything was going so well…

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 10, 2012
  • Post category:Family
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The video below is  perfect example of life with two children as opposed to one: When one child is happy, something can go tragically wrong with the other one. Not…

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Read more about the article Ugly baby

Ugly baby

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 9, 2012
  • Post category:Critic
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Earlier in the week my wife and I brought the kids to a perfectly lovely children’s museum called Imagination Nation. It’s actually one of my favorites. My daughter could spend…

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Read more about the article Podcast naming winners announced

Podcast naming winners announced

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:August 9, 2012
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Congratulations to Sheree Gillcrist, whose name was randomly selected from a pool of more than 100 respondents who were kind enough to offer ideas for the name of my forthcoming…

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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
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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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