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Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Simon has lots of plans for when he’s a grown-up, and they aren’t the dreams of blasting off into space, digging up dinosaur bones, or driving a racing car that I would have expected. Not yet, anyway. Nope, his dreams are a bit more prosaic at present. “When I’m a grown-up,” he tells me, “I’m […]

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Family Man

On Friday, August 6, at about 10:40 a.m., my friend Gabriel (birth name Kwai Akech Kwai) became a family man in the truest sense when his wife Alek and daughter Agotich arrived from Khartoum, Sudan, via Amman, Jordan, and Chicago, Illinois. And what a long, strange, trip it was. They met four years ago through […]

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Which is good, because I’m too tired to write right now. That will come later. But all you really need to know–or see–is this:

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Foreign Toys

I don’t know how he does it, but Simon is aces at being attracted to toys I can’t get. He had an entire week at camp themed “Disney” and never once asked for a Mickey or a Minnie. They had an Alvin and the Chipmunks week that also yielded no requests. Beach week resulted in […]

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How Hot Is It?

EVERYONE has their own stories to qualify the brutality of this summer’s heat wave (hottest on record here in Kentucky). The New York Times ran a funny piece last month that measured the misery in terms of utility workers’ overtime pay, the physical toll on firefighters and police officers, and the stir-craziness of New Yorkers […]

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Blue in the Interview

I quit posting my career change stuff because it seemed so overwrought and self indulgent once I got the boot.  I haven’t decided if that stuff will see the light of day yet, but one part of an un-posted thread reared its head again two weeks ago. When I first began career counseling, back in […]

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