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Ian Plays Soccer Like a Hurricane
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My son Ian, who is a senior in high school, has had a rough couple years of high school soccer-- he was an excellent player when he was youn...
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Dave Grohl and Langston Hughes, Together at Last?
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You're not going to read Dave Grohl's memoir for the writing quality: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music is kind of cheesy . ....
What Are the Odds?
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I've spend an inordinate amount of my life on grassy fields-- playing soccer, coaching soccer, playing golf, hiking, walking the dog, et...
Out with My Wife (Three Outings!)
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Today we had off for Rosh Hashanah so my wife and I headed out to Sandy Hook to explore the old army base (Fort Hancock) at the tip of the...
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Out with the Deatz
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I was at the Annual Grant Avenue Block Party yesterday when Deatz made me an offer I couldn't refuse: a free ticket to the Rutgers/Iowa ...
Out with the Ladies
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Successful happy hour at B2 Bistro, a newish place on Farrington Lake near my old stomping grounds-- used to be Sir John's, a place we w...
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Got the Podcast Done Just in Time
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First of all, I managed to finish another episode of my podcast We Defy Augury . . . this one is about Steven Johnson's new book and it...
Special Guest
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Alex came home from college and ate dinner with us tonight-- which was very exciting-- but the reason was not so exciting: he needed to buy ...
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Tuesday = Johnny Lawrence
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Ian scored his first varsity goal yesterday-- so he's one step closer to his goal of scoring in varsity soccer, varsity basketball-- whi...
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Very Very Early Action
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I was upstairs reading some Civil War history and I heard some yelling downstairs so I went to check it out and apparently Ian was getting s...
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Phrases phrases phrases
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My wife has a habit of slightly altering idioms so that they retain the meaning but contain a synonym or two in place of the typical words i...
Pirates? Not the Disney Version
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Great non-fiction writers can make any topic interesting and Steven Johnson is one of the great ones, he's done it over and over with v...
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Thus Endeth the Streak
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It was such a good week for Ian (until the mooning incident).
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Could Be an Educational Experiment
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I had an Indian curry and a shitload of lentils for lunch and I'm drinking coffee and now I'm wolfing down rice and beans for dinner...
Epic Week But No Complaints
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A long week . . . five days of teaching six classes and four preps, plus Back to School Night (and no more videos, we're doing it in per...
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Saul > Sentence
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New content is canceled today-- Catherine, Ian, and I watching the penultimate episode of Better Call Saul . . . all the timelines are comi...
The Key To Teaching High Schhol
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I really have to remember to thank my children for providing so much material for my classroom-- it's so much easier to teach teenagers ...
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Dave's Still Got It (Aside from a Thick Head of Hair and Speed)
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This weekend, I took a break from racquet sports (I played pickle-ball, badminton, and tennis last week) and met up with my pick-up soccer g...
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Apology Note to My Biceps (and the rest of my muscles)
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I'm sorry I went to the gym this morning and lifted weights when I knew that we had to remove a couch from our living room-- never again...
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (by Dave)
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Some of you may be familiar with how I live my life ( Dave-style ) and one of the cute and quirky things about my particular style of living...
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The First Thing I Do in the Morning
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Before you can wake up and smell the coffee, someone has to make the coffee.
Note to Self: Wear a Belt!
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Once every school year I either forget my belt or decide my pants fit perfectly and I don't need a belt-- but I always forget that once...
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This One Goes to 11
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Episode 11 of my podcast We Defy Augury is up . . . while it's inspired by the new Don Winslow novel "City on Fire," it...
Another Labor Day, Another Greased Watermelon Water-polo Rugby Match
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Yesterday was the end of the season picnic at the Rutgers pool and the end of the season picnic culminates with the greased-watermelon-rugby...
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Graduation Wine
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Action-packed Saturday: I took a long bike ride on the tow road (and with the cross country coach, who I ran into on his bike in Johnson Pa...
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Back to School
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Total brain fog-- today was some kind of epic Professional Development Day at school (and even though what all the teachers want to do is ge...
Mafia Redux
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If you're looking for a well-written organized crime tale in a different setting than usual (Providence! Like Crimetown! ) then check ou...
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Willie Nelson Strikes Again!
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My favorite joke of all time-- the Willie Nelson joke -- appeared in one of Adrian McKinty's crime novels, leading to a visit from McKin...
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Double Digits!
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I'm proud to announce that I've released TEN episodes of my podcast "We Defy Augury" . . . and I hope I have enough mat...
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Nothing Says Jersey like a Microbrewery in an Industrial Park
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Yesterday my wife and I went to the Jersey Cyclone Brewing Company -- which, like Cypress Brewery is located in a weird industrial park-- b...
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Some Deets
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Yesterday's sentence was vague, Yoda-esque, and boring-- so here's a bit more detail: yesterday, Ian and I took off for Hamilton, Ne...
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Too Long is the SAT
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The SAT is too long.
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My Dog is Panting
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We are past the "dog days" of summer-- those occur in late July, when the dog star Sirius appears to rise alongside the sun-- but ...
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Altercation at the Tennis Court!
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My buddy Cob and I went to play tennis this morning at Johnson Park, and the girl's tennis team was practicing-- taking up a few courts-...
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Dr. Moreau, What Have You Wrought?
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I enjoyed Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau so much that I went ahead and read the original, the novel her book is ba...
The Only Way to Make it Through a Colonoscopy: TikTok
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I survived my colonoscopy today-- and last night's utterly disgusting colonoscopy prep-- and I will NOT be doing this procedure again fo...
Colonoscopy Humor
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This sentence is going to be a little hazy because I'm fasting for my colonoscopy tomorrow morning-- but I've gotten lots of advice ...
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Back to Reality . . .
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I'm still a little dazed from our beach vacation-- lots of pickleball, tennis, spikeball, eating, drinking, and young male hijinks . . ....
Weather is Everything
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Finally, some decent weather . . . high 70s and East winds down in Sea Isle, I finished "Nemesis Games," the fifth book in the Exp...
Boys are Gross
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We were about to get an early start to Sea Isle City yesterday-- the car fully packed, bikes on the rack, chairs on the roof-- when we notic...
Dark Matter . . . Read It Quickly
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If you're looking for a fun, thrilling, and kind of ridiculous "many worlds" quantum multiverse sci-fi book that explores the ...
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Preemptive Plumbing
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Today, for the first time in my life, I visited a gastroenterologist-- aptly named Dr. Plumser-- and when he asked why I was visiting, I sai...
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Preemptive Cream
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Today, for the first time in my life, I visited the dermatologist and when the doctor-- Dr. Penelope Cohen, a little lady who wore a doctor&...
Hot Peppers, Homer Simpson, and Some Annoying News
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My wife's garden has been producing an abundance of hot peppers and we needed to do something with them before they decayed in the crisp...
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Outer Banks Fishing Trip XXIX
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Here are a few things I remember from OBFT XXIX: 1) manatee sighting; 2) Bruce gave a heartfelt speech and then we took turns scattering som...
Two Recs
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Two good things: 1) Jordan Peele's new movie Nope . . . it's Moby Dick, Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all rolled u...
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Rain!
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I'm not sure I'd like living in a place where it rains all the time-- Pittsburgh or Rochester or Seattle-- but we've had quite a...
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Mean Streets and Not-So-Mean Streets
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I couldn't find my car keys this morning but we solved the mystery-- Ian left them in the car door last night . . . and the van was park...
Back from the Beach
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A fun but slightly fraught family beach vacation-- Alex never made it down, he kept testing positive for COVID and he didn't want to ris...
No Swimmin'
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Interesting beach week so far: Alex tested positive for COVID the night before we left-- luckily, he hasn't been around much, he's b...
The Tattoos They are A-Changin'
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Long ago, I wanted to get a tattoo on my back of the great undersea battle: sperm whale vs. giant squid, but They Might Be Giants released &...
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Sherlock Holmes in Space
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If you're looking for a locked-room-type whodunnit set in the far future, in the vast reaches of space, on a space station, with a robot...
It's Still Hot, But We're Out In It
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I played tennis this morning with my buddy Cob and-- because of the extreme heat-- we were the only people on the courts playing singles . ....
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It's Hot
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Stacey gave me a ride home in her jeep from our college writing workshop today (we got so much work done! I actually did some work in the su...
Sleep Comes and Goes
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Everyone knows when you have a newborn in the house, you're going to be sleep deprived; soon enough they sleep through night and things ...
Dave Finishes Two Things
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I just finished making Episode 5 of We Defy Augury : "The Foundling by Ann Leary: Eugenics on the Beach?" and I just finished rea...
As Usual . . .
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One of the recurring themes of this blog is that I think I am sore from doing some oddball exercise (this time: deadlifts) but then it turns...
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Post Deadlift Blues
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Ian and I had some fun doing trap bar deadlifts yesterday at the gym-- the trap bar makes deadlifts much easier to execute . . . which might...
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Post Beach Blues
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The day after a beach day is always a bit depressing-- it's so hot and dry in central Jersey right now- and while I did bike to the pool...
Bloodhound at the Beach?
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Lovely (and fairly typical) beach day in Asbury Park with Stacey, Cunningham, Chantal and my wife-- but one odd moment when we were walkin...
A Beach Read . . . About Eugenics?
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The Foundling , by Ann Leary, is billed as a summer beach read and it meets those specifications: while there's no sun or sand in the no...
Oddly Liberating
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This morning my son Alex took the book bag with my phone in it and Ian took the car with my wallet in it so I had no phone or money so I too...
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Sharks and Lantern Flies Menace the East Coast
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Yesterday, my wife went over our friends' house (Lynn and Connell) to help them plant some milkweed-- because apparently milkweed poiso...
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Shuffling Around Harlem and Elsewhere
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Colson Whitehead's new novel Harlem Shuffle is not as dark and profound as The Underground Railroad but it still explores race and pla...
Summer sans Motor Vehicle
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Relaxing summer so far: the kids take the cars to their various job so all that's left for me to do is pull my training sled up and down...
Trip to Possumtown!
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My wife and I took a road trip to the Possumtown Firehouse last night for what I thought was going to be a two hour CPR class-- I need to up...
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Youngsters are Cute . . . But F%$% 'em
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Youngsters ARE cute-- as evidenced by the baby raccoon that Lola and I saw cavorting in a tree at the park-- and they the future, of cours...
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Impressive Stuff
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Impressive amount of people at the Rutgers pool yesterday for Fourth of July; impressive amount of meats served, not so impressive performan...
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Right on the Note
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No irony at our town fireworks display last night: they blasted Katy Perry's song "Firework" as the shit blew up-- and some ni...
Sort of Relaxing Saturday
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It could have been a relaxing Saturday . . . but I got up early and did some work on my new podcast-- it's called We Defy Augury , I'...
The Joy of Joy
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I'm starting to understand Joy Williams a bit more-- I just finished The Quick and the Dead and her fragmented moments and motifs are s...
Victory . . . But At What Cost? At What Cost?
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I beat Dr. Michael Atkin today at tennis 7-5-- it was a grueling match and I rarely get the best of him (he's the quickest 40 year old t...
If You Live In Jersey (and Teach) Check This Out
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Holy shit . . . my wife saved us a boatload of money by switching from Liberty Mutual Insurance to Teachers Insurance through Plymouth Rock-...
Summer Begins?
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This morning was going to be the official start of summer relxation for Catherine and me-- school is over, Alex's graduation party succe...
What the Hell is a Harrow?
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Reading Joy Williams is like scrambling up a muddy embankment . . . but there is no top of the cliff, it's all scrambling; Harrow is se...
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The Slow Decay of Summer Begins!
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We had a successful graduation party for Alex yesterday-- Catherine did SO much preparation-- salsa bar, three kinds of taco meats, gorditas...
People Dreamed of Ohio
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I read David McCullough's The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West on my Kindle, in dreamish ...
Softball Drivers
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There's a big softball tournament in the park by my house and some softball parent from South Jersey passed out at the wheel of her Je...
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Still in the Ending Mode
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Stacey and Cunningham put the finishing touches on the end of the year mural today . . . and if it seems kind of cryptic, it's because y...
The End is Nigh (Or Is It The Beginning?)
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Alex graduated yesterday-- a lovely ceremony on the front lawn of Highland Park High School-- and then he went to Project Graduation (an eve...
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A Great Father's Day Weekend
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Saturday was the big $25 dollar a head random draw cornhole tournament at my cousin Tim's father-in-law's house in North Brunswick a...
In the Money
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Another fabulous EBHS end-of-the-year party: the Victory beer was free, the pool was warm, and Kristyn and I finally won the corn-hole tourn...
Two Things I Learned Late in Life
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Here are two things I learned very recently: 1) leftover wings are delicious if you reheat them on the grill; 2) when you're in the show...
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It Took A While
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My brother, an accomplished jazz pianist, has always sung the praises of Steely Dan, but I never got it-- until today, in the car . . . I pu...
Am I This Guy? I Guess So
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As an adult, at some point while reading a sci-fi series, you ask yourself: "Am I really the kind of person who reads an entire sci-fi ...
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It's Been a Day, A Birth Day . . .
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Today is my younger son's seventeenth birthday, and he was scheduled for his driving test at 11 AM . . . but first, he needed to attend ...
Short and Old
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The more my kids have grown, the more they've gotten into basketball-- and while they're not very good, they have long arms and can ...
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It's Friday, I Think
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The closer we get to the end of the year, the more time becomes elastic and the longer the 84 minute block schedule classes seem . . . this ...
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Epic Hump Day
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My buddy Jeff cajoled me into getting up early this morning to play badminton with the 6 AM badminton crew-- the last time I did this was in...
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I Have a Dream . . .
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I have a dream to make the side of my backyard like the back of my backyard . . . to make a similar leafy green wall of fargesia clumping ...
The End is Nigh
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In class today, Hamlet-- who recently returned to Denmark from a near-death adventure with pirates-- confronted Yorick's skull today and...
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Crowded Bridge, Noisy Bridge, Deserted Bridge, Little Bridge
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Yesterday's Man Hike (led by Dave Tulloch) started out reminiscent of the day my wife and I spend in New York a few months ago but the ...
Geoff Dyer Gives Up on Giving Up
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Geoff Dyer -- famous for Out of Sheer Rage, his anti-biography of D.H Lawrence, which becomes a mediation on procrastination-- has written...
Hamlet is Perfect for Seniors in June
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It must be getting near the end of the year, as we finished Act IV of Hamlet today; Ophelia finally met her tragic, but beautiful, flower-st...
The Last Days of Tennis (Like This)
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All things must come to an end . . . and endings are worth meditation-- as evidenced by Geoff Dyer's fantastic book The Last Days of Rog...
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