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The Daily Apocalypse
Every night my youngest, usually after his brother has gone to sleep already, insists that I tell him several chapters of a story I made up one night, desperate to get him to stop getting out of his bed, called “The Adventure Squad,” in which he and his family meet his heroes, fight bad guys,…
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How do you spell “time?”
My eldest (I guess I’ll just start calling him Eldest) has been taking a once-a-week afterschool class on coding for kids. “How do you spell ‘maker’?” I usually have to yell the letters across the house; he is not patient enough to wait for me to finish whatever I’m doing and walk back into the…
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The Long Walk
Because I absolutely despise cars and because public transit has gone… down the tubes (a-ha-ha!), I have been walking to (and from) work for over a year now. It is four and a half miles and takes about an hour and a half. It means there are weeks in which I get a solid 36…