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Read more about the article Five months old today!

Five months old today!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 30, 2012
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My wife made the hat. We made Charlie.

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Read more about the article This may not make her the coolest kid in high school

This may not make her the coolest kid in high school

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  • Post published:October 30, 2012
  • Post category:Family/Music
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My three year old daughter specifically requested the song Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini while in the car yesterday. Earlier in the week, when the song Dancing…

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Read more about the article Bad Internet

Bad Internet

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 30, 2012
  • Post category:Critic/Words
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The Internet is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without it. Still, I can’t help but think that before the Internet, this sentence, and…

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Read more about the article Some of my favorite things

Some of my favorite things

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 30, 2012
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A spiteful Santa, a bratty boy, a dinosaur and poop? I’m not going to lie. This book sounds great.

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Read more about the article The Nipple Bra is further proof that it wasn’t entirely my parents’ fault.

The Nipple Bra is further proof that it wasn’t entirely my parents’ fault.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 29, 2012
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I once heard a Moth storyteller blame her parents’ failure to meet the minimum requirements of a mother and father on the 1970s. It was a different and inexplicable time…

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Read more about the article A dog ate my book.

A dog ate my book.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 29, 2012
  • Post category:MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND items
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MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND had an interesting week. Early in the week, I was contacted by a reader who had borrowed a signed copy of the book from a…

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Read more about the article Overstated

Overstated

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 29, 2012
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My daughter, a possible future geologist, handed me a rock today and told me it was “the shiniest rock in the whole wide world.” It wasn’t. Not even close.

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Read more about the article Worst barcode placement ever

Worst barcode placement ever

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 28, 2012
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A reader (@jpetroroy) posted this earlier this week. Covering up my name was bad. The choice of letters left behind is just wrong.

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Read more about the article Real men don’t use umbrellas, but if we did…

Real men don’t use umbrellas, but if we did…

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 28, 2012
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… this should be the umbrella of choice:

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Read more about the article Our little dinosaur

Our little dinosaur

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 27, 2012
  • Post category:Family
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I hope Charlie likes his Halloween costume as much as we do!   

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