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Rocket camp

Beth is enrolled in “college for kids,” a summer program run by a local college. She spends the mornings in a full immersion spanish class. Sounds like a blast right? No, that doesn’t come until the afternoon. Rocket camp. The teacher even refers to himself as “Captain.” O.K., I think that’s a little weird, but he seems like a nice guy, and he’s a really…
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Pick-up

Adam and I drove over to Tampa International this evening. Southwest was reporting the plane was coming in a little early, so we left a little early too. We had twenty minutes to kill in the terminal, so we hit the ubiquitous Starbucks, and picked out a table looking out across the escalator pit (leading to baggage claim) towards the shuttle departure/arrival station for the Southwest gates…
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Back to me

“Back to you? I wasn’t aware you ever left the subject?” There are people in my life, people I love dearly, who’ve been dealing with issues that don’t revolve around me, and it felt wrong to hold the usual self-hate-fest during their time of loss and sorrow. So I’ve been holding out on the rest of you. I’ve been tinkering with a post on depression &#8211…
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First assisted ride

Adam’s had a bike in waiting almost from the day he was born (a hand-me-down from a friend). It spent a lot of its time neglected on the front porch – until one afternoon I decided its time was nearing. Then it came inside to live with its brother and sisters. This weekend I mustered enough enthusiasm and energy to take Adam for a helmet fitting and drag out my repair stand and tools.
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Ass Mac

What would you do if your wife told you there were too many computers in the house? Could you bring yourself to get rid of a few? What if they were more than just computers… but Macs? So what if they’re just taking up space, or the bedroom is beginning to look like a storage shed. These little guys are members of the family. You don’t kick family out of the house when they stop…
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A good time

There are good reasons and bad, reasons that are easy to understand and others that are harder to appretiate. When you put them together you get someone who’s found it hard to find joy in anything. You get me. Saturday night was an exception. Two days later I’m back in the emotional valley, but the memory of our evening out still has the power to make a smile. We’d done a…
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