From the monthly archives:
In the mornings now I let my son watch an Audi video on youtube. He wants to watch the same one again and again, a guy in a blue Audi S4 gunning his engine and speeding off down the road. He sits on the couch, still in his footed pajamas, his fists clenched by his [...]
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I was sitting in McDonald’s with the kids when I learned Michael Jackson was dead. The kids were scrambling over the play structure and I took a break to scroll through facebook status updates on my phone; there were two in a row from friends who wrote something like, “listening to classic MJ”. [...]
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And so it has started. My six year old is in love, or at least her version of love, which bears some resemblance to the real thing (botched attempts to express oneself, reading signals wrong, general lunacy). The evidence as follows:
Exhibit A: This notebook found in the living room. The notebook, bought from a Japanese [...]
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It seems I have fallen back in love with something I once hated. Perhaps not hated, but disliked. As a child, my family and I spent many summer vacations camping. We camped in Death Valley, in Yosemite, in Bear Valley, in Switzerland, by the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland. We camped everywhere. It’s strange [...]
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