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Monthly Archive for June, 2012

At least mine, as self-reported, does. So we’re watching tennis today, some blonde woman I don’t know who used to be ranked #1 or close to it playing some brunette I also don’t know who’s an up-and-comer from Austria. It’s match point for the brunette. She blows it. It goes another game or two. Another […]

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Time for more homeless quotes from Mr. Simon.  (“Mr. Simon” is TM my cousins Arnie & Jane.) Upon counting his cousin Ben’s shots and calculating points at an arcade basketball game: “I’m like a score-board” On his preferred route driving home from his grandparents’ house: “No, no, Daddy. Don’t stay on 64; take 264 to […]

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Sports Parenting

The last six months have afforded me the opportunity to observe a vast array of sports parents in their natural habitat. Now, I’m not really getting the hard-core folks yet because Simon is playing in junior-junior, non-competitive leagues. So I can look forward to an up-close and personal* view of the insane screamer at a […]

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Baby Steps

At age 15 months, I learned how to walk. Forty-one years later, I’m finally learning how to do it correctly. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Anyone who knows me much knows I have a funny walk. It can best be described as duck-like, as my feet splay to the sides giving me a distinctive waddling gait. […]

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Values: Public and Private

If I’m honest, parenthood has made a hypocrite of me. Thankfully, I’m not alone in this. Two years ago or so, in a chat with a dear friend from graduate school, the discussion moved as it so often does to our children. We hadn’t seen each other in a while; a work trip took me […]

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The Big Crash

For the entirety of our vacation, Simon was a study in motion. At the end of our first day of travel home, we hit a soccer complex in Asheville so he could  continue his athletic pursuits. Nine a.m. our first day home, Simon was on a tennis court having his first official lesson of the […]

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Jessica Whitworth

No, no, I did not change my name. I did, however, change my persona for the past week. When Matt and I got engaged 17 years ago, it never occurred to me to take his last name. I had a (since aborted) academic career to think of, but more than that, I had a strong […]

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Whatever Happened to Beach Reading?

Simon is what happened. This is our first beach vacation with Simon, and boy does having a kid change everything! It would take more energy and thought than I’m currently capable of to explain all the differences, so I’ll distill it into two observations. 1. On a typical beach vacation, I’d read a book every […]

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Catch a Wave

Oh wow. It’s lunch on our third full day at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. So far, Simon has enjoyed the following: Tennis: He’s already played four times The Beach: He’s been three times and today tried out the boogie board. He rolled a bit, but took it like a champ, sang Beach Boys songs, […]

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