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Serious
There is a part of me that longs to be serious, or,more precisely, to be taken seriously. That, however, is the part of me that I shipped off to Siberia in return for a mail-order bride.* Seriousness...
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Muumuu
Last year I wrote something about the local bikini mom brigade and the sub-suburban bathing suit top dress code. There seemed, at that time, to be something distinctly un-sexy about the fortysomething...
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Podcast Episode 22: Flower Tower
Welcome to the 22nd(ish) podcast. Enjoy the crunchy audio goodness here, or subscribe to the whole mess at mostlyteachable on itunes. In this episode I goof on the news and throw in a story about...
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Full
Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he? When I was 14, my dad bought a copy of It’s a Wonderful Life on video tape. To...
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Distinguished
When I was a strapping, long-haired hippy boy of 25, I was pretty smug about the aging process. At that time, I worked with a muscle-bound gentleman who attributed his physique to dietary...
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Doing
The first paragraph of this bit of material has been sitting in the draft bin since 4/9/13. In response to a Cheri Lucas challenge at dailypost.wordpress.com, I decided to finish the thought and send...
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Abercrombie and F
photo courtesy of http://www.abercrombieschweiz.com Hi. I don’t belong anywhere near an Abercrombie & Fitch store. The clothing retailer’s CEO Mike Jeffries has told the media for a number of years...
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Shufflin’
There is a special kind of weird behavior that humans engage in during civil and religious holidays. Especially, it seems American humans. We develop the need to put each other through a particularly...
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Daddy Checks In
I’ve held a certain idyllic image of Father’s Day in my scrambled brain for many years. As the holiday approaches each year, visions of grilled bratwurst and sitting around in a lawn chair dance...
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Dangerous
There are strange turns in the English language that mark our native tongue. Twists of idiomatic language that are unique to the American experience. One such phrase that always makes me laugh is I...
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