Category: Others
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Friends
It’s an early winter evening in Connecticut, dark and cold. I’m walking from my college dorm to a lecture hall where Sebastian Junger and many of those featured in The Perfect Storm will speak. As usual, I’m walking with my best friend and his girlfriend. We do just about everything together and will one day be family. However, this night,…
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My high school graduate advice
Fortunately for my son, I wasn’t invited to speak at his high school graduation. Unfortunately for my son, he gets his capacity for emotional expression from me, so I’m taking several weeks to write what could have been spoken on that day. Had I been allowed to talk to the Northern High School class of 2021, this…
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The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest — Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. “I think I may have met my future wife,” I told my father on the phone, “but there are a few issues.” To be precise: I met the woman in question on a weeklong trip to Europe,… The…
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National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
“They found a tumor. You need to come here…” May 3, 2015. It had been a terrible night of sleep. Pepper had not been herself for two weeks, but the previous night seemed different. She had seen the doctor twice for constipation and a distended belly, responding somewhat to medication. However, yesterday she didn’t want…
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Top ten reasons I love Deb
I’ve been married to this lovely lady for 19 years. Please allow me to tell you the top ten things I love about her. Note: Because I’m new to WordPress I can only figure out how to count up, so please read from the bottom up: Her accountability: I’m self-centered by nature and tried to…
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Cowan’s Gap State Park
Time for a lighter and/or shorter post. We did our best to balance the physical risk of venturing into the world over Memorial Day weekend with the mental gain of a change in scenery. I actually took two days off of work with no real agenda and after homeschool “let out” on Friday, we headed…
Patience and Humility 