If I didn’t think I would lose all credibility as a responsible parent, I might have rousted my children from their beds last night and asked them to help me with my homework. As it was, I seriously considered it. I am a student again. For three days now, 12 hours in all, and I can…
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I had to look up her picture in our high school yearbook. I remembered her name but had to remind myself what she looked like. I don’t think we were ever in the same classes, though maybe in grade school. Not that I wasn’t happy to hear from her. Since my 30th high school reunion,…
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Most of what I pretend to know in life can be traced to a sitcom. If it isn’t Seinfeld, it’s Mary Tyler Moore. If it isn’t Sex in the City, it’s The Brady Bunch. That’s probably why, when my daughter came home from her first day of high school today and listened wistfully to her…
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I realize it seems like an awfully suspicious coincidence that the Cubs disappeared at about the same time my blog did last week, but I can assure you one has nothing to do with the other. I can say this because while I grew up in the northern suburbs surrounded by Cubs fans, I was,…
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Fall is a strange and harrowing time for me. My birthday is in fall, but I’ve never had a problem with my birthday except that one moment of panic I had when I turned 27 and couldn’t remember how old I was until I did the math. Football season is in the fall, which, given…
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