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member name: Clay Nichols
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February 01, 2007 01:05 AM EST --
My mother-in-law is presiding over one of the most unique and touching raffles that I have ever seen. Spread out on a table in front of her are about fifty pieces of costume jewelry (necklaces, bracelets, . . .
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March 18, 2007 12:49 AM EDT --
I got a voucher from jetBlue this week, so I guess it’s time to move on. The Valentine’s Day JFK Debacle was weeks ago. The whole jetBlue deal is so completely over. What am I whining . . .
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March 20, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
Okay, I said it. There it is. My nomination for the absolute worst parenting moment outside of illness or injury.
Poop in the tub.
Maybe nobody else is talking about it, because they . . .
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February 14, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
This week my daughter, ever the proud kindergartener, pulled from her backpack a pulpy red-bordered catalog that I recognized instantly. It was her first Scholastic Book Club catalog. Book . . .
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April 29, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
Last week I rated an invitation to a birthday party that, for the first time in six years, didn't involve a piñata. I got a call from a friend that has done pretty well for himself inviting . . .
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March 27, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
I don't know if this is a universal dad thing, but I am the family photographer. Period. In that role I have taken thousands of pictures of my wife and kids. There are shoeboxes stuffed . . .
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April 10, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
A wedding and an Easter egg hunt this weekend had me thinking about kids and community.
Saying that we want our kids to have a healthy sense of community is easy because "community" is . . .
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February 04, 2007 12:43 PM EST --
A few thoughts about your children and the media on the eve of the Superbowl:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently published a policy statement that you should probably read. It is entitled . . .
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April 03, 2007 12:20 AM EDT --
Oprah Winfrey has selected Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road as the latest selection to her book club. I cannot imagine a more unlikely choice, but I’m impressed.
I finished the book . . .
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August 12, 2007 04:05 PM EDT --
Thanks Aruni over at babblesoft for tagging me with this one. I'm responding because she hooked me up with some PR last week. Okay, here we go.
1) I was Texas State Champion in wrestling . . .
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March 26, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
I can say without hesitation that Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows by Stacie Cockerell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone is the single . . .
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April 05, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
For those of you in two-parent households with kids, do you divide equally the tasks of raising kids and running a household? Is yours more of a 60/40 marriage? 80/20? How do you split . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:31 AM EDT --
Mother’s Day. Give mom a card, breakfast in bed, handmade presents from the kids – all cute as a button. But let’s face it. This day just isn’t getting the job . . .
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June 05, 2007 11:49 PM EDT --
One of the sacred cows of parenting, one of those deeply held societal values that all us breeders share, is that children should do chores – required, independently and regularly performed household . . .
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July 12, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
I never heard her called Ladybird. I heard her grandkids call her "Nini." Otherwise, I only heard her addressed as Mrs. Johnson.
I had the pleasure of Mrs. Johnson's company . . .
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January 30, 2008 12:26 PM EST --
Day one was marked by a clear sense of unease, a nervousness just beneath the surface. I first picked up on this when I began dinner preparations. Coop, who usually busies himself with . . .
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January 25, 2007 01:12 AM EST --
Recent census data reveals that married women are now in the minority. For many, I think this is an amusing and/or satisfying indication of how empowered women have become. Articles offering . . .
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January 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
I took one look at the thing and sprained both ankles and fractured my tibia.
Because skateboards are not nearly unstable and dangerous enough, someone went ahead and invented the Ripstik . . .
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February 03, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
This is officially Not Funny Anymore. The little punks have given me this flu garbage. I've had it. I surrender. They can have McDonalds every night, and watch all the TV they want. . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
What use is it for a blogger to go to Disney, if not to come back and write a long, snarky takedown of the Happiest Place on Earth? So here it comes.
I didn't like the coffee.
Is that . . .
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