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There are few things sadder than a closed playground, especially the ones that are set up for really little kids. They tore down the one at Constitution Park near our house last week in preparation for a large reconfiguration of the entire sp...
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Crazy times around here since getting back from vacation. I’ve been on the road for work a fair bit, and we’re getting ready to officially wrap up summer as the kids gear up to go off to school—Danny for his senior year (go ...
I like to think of the letters that people sometimes include with their holiday cards as a form of proto-blogging. It was a form of mass publishing that predates social media by decades, one of the few methods people had even before email to keep oth...
The past year resists any attempt to weave a narrative or theme around it. There were some major ups and downs, which sets it apart from 2020, a year that had no ups. But I can’t say if it was better or worse. Different and less linear, for sur...