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Complementary colors

Complementary colors

 

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A Percy Jackson Phenomenon

There has been a bit of what I’m going to call a Percy Jackson Phenomenon going on here lately. What happened was that a few months ago I stopped at the library and just grabbed a stack of books that I thought my daughter would be interested in. She had just finished reading The Diary of a Wimpy …

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How Well Do You Know Your Own Kid?

How Well Do You Know Your Own Kid?

My daughter gave her dad and I each a test last night, How Well Do You Know Your Own Kid? It was cute, and of course, I scored higher! But that’s because he lost a lot of points by answering the first question with his name — rather than her name. Oops. (I knew Justin …

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Book One

This afternoon my daughter asked about the novel that I wrote  and if she could see it. So I dug out my one and only copy that is in print form and handed it to her. She was very impressed that it was 28 chapters long. And then she told me that I should write another book, …

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Rerun: A conversation

Here’s a rerun from August 2008: A conversation with Zoe this afternoon while we were at the YMCA Zoe: Mom there’s a girl here who looks just like you. Me: Really? Zoe: Let me go take another look at her to see if it’s you, or if she just looks like you. And then she …

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Size 7

I took my daughter to buy new shoes today. Around this time last year she was in the inbetween stages of kids shoes and adults shoes and I was practically at a loss for shoes that fit her properly. The kids shoes were all too small, and the ladies shoes would have fit if the …

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etc.

The kid and I were reading a book the other night. She reads for a while, and then I read for awhile. I don’t always follow along when she’s reading, so I was a little confused when she read: Etickk, etickk, etickk. What?? And then I scanned the pages to see if I could identify …

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