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First day jitters 21 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
I wasn’t even leaving the house, and I was terrified. The boy wore a “Phineas and Ferb” t-shirt, plaid shorts, and his new sneaks. He had a fresh haircut and a new backpack. A day earlier, he’d soake...
One American’s flow chart 8 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
I am not an activist. I am not a revolutionary. I’m a dad of two American boys. *** Imagine this: somebody thinks you did something wrong. Let’s say it’s your old boss at Flaco’s Tacos. His name is ...
So many kids… 24 Jul 2013 | 06:21 am
“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.” –Scroobius Pip I could probably count to a hundred, but if you’d asked me, I would’ve told you there were a million of them. ...
The stillness of an 8-year-old’s chest 17 Apr 2013 | 08:26 pm
I looked down on the ground. In the grass sat a little plastic coin, scuffed and scratched from little-boy cleats that had walked over it on the way to home plate. “Caught doing good,” read the legend...
Thank you, Mike Rice 3 Apr 2013 | 11:19 pm
Former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice is at best a very confused and disturbed human being. He is at worst a psychopath in need of inpatient treatment. Today, I suggest we should thank him for his...
Assigning freedom 27 Mar 2013 | 05:42 am
You want your freedom, do you? I know you do, because you post about it on Facebook, and you talk about how the government better not come and try to take it from you. You are an American with God-giv...
What did you wash out of your mouth today? 26 Mar 2013 | 03:42 am
I don’t even know how to start this, so I’ll just say it. My kid peed in my mouth today. There it is. My child—a boy who turns four years old in less than two months—urinated in my mouth a couple of h...
Fate’s reprieve 23 Mar 2013 | 09:23 am
I can’t boil it down to 140 characters. I don’t know why I feel compelled to even consider doing that. Maybe it’s the cook in me who knows that a well-simmered pot will eventually find its essence. Ma...
Ode to Black Dog 18 Feb 2013 | 07:00 am
There’s this black dog in my house. Let’s call her Black Dog. She’s been here for two weeks, and I just told my wife to say her goodbyes. *** I absorbed my old dog’s death under 108° sun in the back p...
8 seconds 5 Jan 2013 | 05:25 am
So, here’s a story. On January 8, 2003, my phone rang just as I was getting up for work. A plane had tried to take off from Charlotte, NC bound for my home airport, Greenville-Spartanburg Internationa...
