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Today’s Deep Thought

So Matt and Simon are in the car heading to Graeter’s for some ice cream. Prince comes on. Matt sets up the song: “Oh Simon, you’ll like this one. It’s about a number, 1999.” Simon ponders this information: “1999? That’s what everything costs on TV!” This fascinating coincidence aside, the young Mr. Whitworth is following […]

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Who’s the Grown-Up?

I do not now and never have liked going to the dentist. The X-ray bite-wings don’t fit in my mouth, any dental work leaves my jaw aching and my lips cracked and bleeding, and I frequently have plaque build-up and inflamed gums despite near perfect dental hygiene. In fact, I dread the inevitable lectures about […]

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Music of the Spheres

After an exciting evening of Soccer practice, a late dinner and the Merseyside Derby, I was helping Simon wind down in bed.  Lying there with the lights off, we were talking about one of Simon’s favorite subjects: the planets. “Earth,” I was telling him, “has a lot of things that make it a good place […]

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Shades of His Mother

Just as there is a gulf between Whitworth and Goldstein game-playing styles, so there stands a not-unrelated chasm between attitudes towards school. This cultural divide can be best illustrated via two brief vignettes. Let’s visit young Matthew first. It’s seventh grade, and he’s sweating bullets in home-room because he has to bring home a report […]

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The Wireless

Matt is currently practicing with two bands that play an 80’s heavy rotation, meaning we’ve listened to a lot of 80’s music in the car these last 4 months or so. The hilarious result of which was the following conversation. I promise I’m not making this up! [pre-1980s song finishes playing on the radio] “Daddy, […]

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The Beautiful Game

Tonight was the first practice for Simon’s Highland Youth Recreation Team, The Rowdies. We suited him up in his shorts, jacket, shin guards, and socks, and laughed when he asked us if he looked like Balotelli [Man City striker] on our way out. Below are two pics of Simon from opening day. The first, of […]

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The Sporting Life

Simon played his last YMCA basketball game of the season this morning. He scored two or three times, chased down a loose ball or two, and even contested for a few rebounds. All in all, he did his team, The Thunder, proud. More importantly, he had fun and made new friends. So endeth a season. […]

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These first few came in December. I’m sure many parents of five-year-olds are used to their sometimes dictatorial ways. But how many of them hear this particular nag? Come on, I’m ready to go to bed! It’s true: Simon has always loved his bed and is fully capable of deciding he’s ready for a nap […]

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Book Report

Simon style. Matt just finished reading him The Hobbit. His favorite part was “when Gandolf comes back and he’s afraid they will leave the path.” His biggest takeaway, however, is that “It’s 317 pages.” In a similar vein, we caught him checking out our copy of Anthony Shadid’s* Night Draws Near. It’s a bit above […]

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Maths

When Simon first began talking about numbers a lot, I chalked it up to being a boy thing. (Sexist, yes, but lots of boys go through a numbers-obsessed phase.) When it seemed to ramp up early this year, I didn’t trust my objectivity. Matt and I were interested in a math/science/technology magnet school, so Simon’s […]

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