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Seriously?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 6, 2011
  • Post category:Current Affairs
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How am I going to explain this to my daughter when she’s old enough to understand the lunacy behind these two maps?

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Read more about the article I have a new job.

I have a new job.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 6, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Idea/Sports
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Frank and Jaime McCourt, owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers and currently engaged in bitter divorce proceedings, paid a psychic hundreds of thousands of dollars over a five-year period to…

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Read more about the article Unfaithful unicorn with a mix tape

Unfaithful unicorn with a mix tape

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 5, 2011
  • Post category:Recommended Reading/Viewing/Words
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Somehow, someway, this is funny as hell. But what was the pitch? “I’ll have a steamy romance with a unicorn, set to a an 80’s power ballad, and we’ll throw in…

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Assigning my students new (and sometimes permanent) names

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 5, 2011
  • Post category:Teaching
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As a teacher, I assign a lot of nicknames to students, a practice that my friends and I often did as a kids. Growing up, everyone I knew had a…

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I know far too much about The Land of the Lost

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 5, 2011
  • Post category:Television
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I know far too much about the original 1970’s version of The Land of the Lost. even though I haven’t watched the show since I was a kid. While visiting…

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Read more about the article Who loves Elmo?

Who loves Elmo?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 4, 2011
  • Post category:Television
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Actually, I kind of love Elmo.  He is quite possibly the nicest creature I’ve ever seen.  His joy in infectious.  It really is. Clara loves him, too.  

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Great accomplishments in the trenches

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 4, 2011
  • Post category:History/Politics/The Writing Process
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  “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da…

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Read more about the article Resolution update: March 2011

Resolution update: March 2011

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 3, 2011
  • Post category:New Year's Resolutions
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1.  Lose 23 pounds, bringing me down to my high school track and field weight. I’m down six pounds since the beginning of the year.  Seventeen to go.  Doing well. …

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Cheers

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 3, 2011
  • Post category:Family
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Gramps and Clara toasting with a martini and a juice box.  I wish I had photographs like this with my grandparents. 

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My first and only earthquake

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 3, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography
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I am fortunate to have experienced only one earthquake in my life. Years ago, I wrote about the three best compliments that I have ever received. The first came on…

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