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I had a son once, named Alex. My wife and I were excited that a son was on his way and we could not help telling everyone. My wife’s mother even knitted a Christmas stocking, inscribed “Alex”, in preparation. My sister was also happy for us, but she was also happy with her own child [...] We have in our house a large basket of computer, phone, ipod and other cables. When we need to charge something and we can’t find the cable, we have to hunt through the basket. It’s a daunting task. We really don’t know what half these cables are for, or if the device that they are [...] I think one of the reasons that the holidays bring both joy and stress to our lives is that it is the one time of the year when even the Scroogest of us finds some kernal of emotion to chew on for a few months. Some of those emotions are based on anticipation of reuniting [...] I did a bit of traveling last week, different hotels in different cities. Invariably, I would get up early to get some work in before my meetings. And as I worked, I would begin hearing the incessant beeping of alarm clocks going off in unoccupied rooms. There would be the 5am alarm clocks, the 5:30am [...] This weekend, I took my daughter to our family place in Montana. She had not been there in three years and I had promised to take her over the summer, but the work got too crazy. So we settled for a long weekend and a little hooky from school. We had a wonderful weekend. One [...] Do you ever get that feeling that, when you’re struggling for an answer, you never can find it, but when you’re focused on something else, you suddenly see the answer right in front of you? And in fact, from then on, everything you look at, everything you read, everyone you speak to, is giving you [...] My wife is experimenting with vegetarian cooking. And tofu plays a major role in a lot of dishes. “The thing about tofu,” my wife said, “is that it tastes just like whatever you cook it with. If you cook it with celery, it will taste like celery, with rice, it will taste like rice, with [...] On Saturday I completed my first marathon, Grandma’s Run in Duluth, MN. My standing joke had been that, given my size, I’d be in the Clydesdale’s weight divison and given my inexperience, I’d be in the back of the Clydesdales making me the horse’s ass of the race. I certainly did not break any land [...] For the past six months I’ve had a cd by Townes Van Zandt recycling through my car stereo. I have a few other cds as well, most of which I enjoy but also most of which my wife is tired of hearing over and over. But I keep come back to Townes who has a [...] During last week, I took the family to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. While the Museum has a lot of interesting work on display, I was particularly interested in one piece which I had read about in a book by Lewis Hyde, entitled Trickster Makes This World. It is a work by Marcel Duchamp entitled [...] |
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