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Children, Thinking
Helplessly Average
12.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?
On the way home tonight, I thought of a letter I should write to my children.

Be unique.
Be exceptional.
Be unbearably quirky, undeniably different, inexorably intimate.

Wear clothes that make you more like you and less like others.
Wear a derby hat-because no one else does.
Wear pink pants with a green shirt because you can.

Sing songs seldom sung.
Sing harmony.
Sing [...]
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Children, Technology
Tivo Generation: Television 5.0
11.25.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments
It is hardly proper for me, the person who had the pleasure of a remote control and VCR throughout most of my memory, to poke fun at the Tivo generation, but my daughter gave me pause this morning. While watching the morning cartoons in the kitchen, on one of our too many televisions, I missed [...]
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Children, Thinking
Disney on Ice - Kudos
09.20.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments
Dear Disney:
Tonight we took the daughter to your Disney on Ice spectacular. While the prince was slaying evil on ice, Darth Disney, the dark suited piracy purger, was confiscating video tapes from the dangerous mothers of the gallery. Good job sir.
I understand. The problem is that the quality of most home video recorders, [...]
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Children, Thinking
Carried away
08.25.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments
On the way to work/preschool this morning, the daughter and I were listening to NPR. In a half conscious daze reeling through the day’s task list, I tuned out the tuned station. The daughter said “that would not be fun.”
I asked her what she was talking about. She said, “getting killed in a tornado.”
“Um, [...]
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Children, Thinking
Soul and Body
04.25.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment
Typical morning conversation:
3 year old daughter: “Daddy, was I in Heaven before I was born?”
Me: “Well, actually that is a great question. First we have to distinguish between the physical and the spiritual or ‘animus.’ Philosophers often debate over the creation or pre-existance of spirit. I, for one, believe that the animus and the physical [...]
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