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Five rules to guarantee a successful the public marriage proposal

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 28, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Idea/Recommended Reading/Viewing
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I just watched three of the most gut-wrenching failed public marriage proposals ever. The most cringe-worthy moments you could ever imagine. For your enjoyment, I have posted them (along with…

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Read more about the article Look! Another politician can’t simply admit to making a historical mistake.

Look! Another politician can’t simply admit to making a historical mistake.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 28, 2011
  • Post category:Critic/History/Politics
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As I’ve said before, I’m not happy when lawmakers make simple historical blunders, but I can live with them. Nobody’s perfect. It’s the refusal to admit that you have made…

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Read more about the article The stupidest simile in the whole wide world

The stupidest simile in the whole wide world

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 27, 2011
  • Post category:Critic/Words
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Without question, the stupidest simile in the history of similes is drunk as a skunk. It is a simile not based upon meaning but simply upon rhyme. Skunks have absolutely…

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Read more about the article The celebratory graduation bedsheet has gone too far

The celebratory graduation bedsheet has gone too far

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 27, 2011
  • Post category:Critic
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Sometimes I get unnecessarily annoyed, so this could admittedly be one of those occasions. But I don’t think so. Ever since the beginning of June, the Connecticut landscape has exploded…

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Read more about the article Blessed innocence

Blessed innocence

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 26, 2011
  • Post category:Books/Family
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I was reading an extremely abbreviated version of The Little Mermaid to my daughter last night when we came upon this last page.  As I pondered what I might say…

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Read more about the article Greatest turnaround of all-time

Greatest turnaround of all-time

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 26, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography
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My alarm fired off this morning at 5:00.  I opened my eyes and began mentally preparing for work.  Lesson plans. Homework assignments. Leveled texts.  Motivational strategies. Then I suddenly realized…

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Read more about the article What not to wear

What not to wear

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 25, 2011
  • Post category:Critic
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I almost always hate when someone tells me what I can and cannot wear. Part of it is the five year old in me, refusing to be told what to…

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How much television do you watch?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 25, 2011
  • Post category:Television
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From a Time magazine piece: “Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that too much…

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Should my students be allowed to make fun of me online?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 24, 2011
  • Post category:Current Affairs/Teaching
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Time magazine asks: Do students have a First Amendment right to make fun of their principals and teachers on Facebook and other social-media sites?  Or can schools discipline them for…

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Stop writing me off

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:June 24, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Quandry
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Why is everyone so anxious to write me off? I describe my knee pain to a friend, and he tells me that my days of playing basketball are almost over.…

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