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More Fits Than Starts: April 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Saturday, April 19, 2008. I feel the earth move under my feet/I feel the sky tumbling down. Was that story about your first memory based in reality? And you lived in L.A., right? I think we have something in common," I said. "I think we experienced the same earthquake. I think that was the Whittier earthquake of 1987. Yeah, I think so.". It started at about 7:30 in the morning on a bright autumn day: October 1, in fact. When I got to the store, everything was off the shelves and th...
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More Fits Than Starts: May 2009
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More Fits Than Starts. Saturday, May 30, 2009. I Love That Dirty Water. Last night as I was loading the dishwasher and the kids were busy painting with watercolors at the kitchen table, my rinse water started backing up from the disposal. This is a pretty common occurrence since the food I'm rinsing off necessarily gathers in the disposal, which needs to be cleared occasionally. And so, as I do frequently, I reached under the sink and flipped the switch for the disposal. I had an accident! The birdbath t...
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More Fits Than Starts: October 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Saturday, October 11, 2008. Train in the Distance. The sound of a marching band blasts through the mid-morning air, bouncing off the neighbors’ garages. An insistent train whistle sounds its required alarm in the near distance. A beat up, muffler-less, sub-compact barely slows and then belches through the intersection, ignoring the stop signs. Peanut click-click-clicks across the kitchen floor, turning in agitated little circles, whining for a walk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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More Fits Than Starts: June 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Friday, June 27, 2008. 24 Hour Potty People. WARNING: This post contains language and subject matter that may be unsuitable for adults or anyone with refined sensibilities. Just watch:. Yes, poop is the theme of the day. Why? Because as the parents of two toddlers, and the owner of a cat and a dog, it's perhaps the defining feature of our lives right now. Every couple of days, I go into the upstairs bathroom and begin the process of changing the bag in the diaper pail. It's a dirty...
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More Fits Than Starts: August 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Saturday, August 30, 2008. B, Double-E, Double-R, U, N. This semester I'm teaching the foundations course for my department, Communication and Theatre. I always start the course off with a bit about communication as the deployment of symbols and the construction, sharing, and contestation of meaning - how we become social beings as we enter into language, but that we must realize that this language is learned and it's relationship to the real world is symbolic and arbitrary. I'm ge...
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More Fits Than Starts: Sacrifice: The "King James" Version
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More Fits Than Starts. Friday, July 9, 2010. Sacrifice: The "King James" Version. Last night’s LeBron James media spectacle was fascinating on so many levels. Loyalty vs. Opportunism. Make by staying in Cleveland. In fact, Jackson went so far as to say that he made sure to watch the ESPN special with his kids so they could see the sacrifice and class of this great athlete. What kind of sacrifice are we talking about here? Is it really the greater good? In a recent issue of the New Yorker, Nancy Franklin ...
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More Fits Than Starts: May 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Saturday, May 17, 2008. The kids were so excited to see her when she arrived at 6:00 that they had to show her everything in the house. They were eager to show her everything in their world outside of daycare: Peanut, Eddie, the porch, the playroom. And so we left them in the more than able hands of Miss Lisa and headed off to the awards ceremony. I wore a suit. And his Flip video camera! That's me at the end making the Chad Lowe reference. Unlike Chad, though, I did not cry).
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More Fits Than Starts: The Hustler
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More Fits Than Starts. Monday, August 10, 2009. He first showed up one evening while I was washing dishes. Out of the kitchen window, I saw him, suddenly (as he always appeared). He was staring at me. I stared back for a while, looked away, and he was gone. He showed up every day after that and we finally decided that this skinny little fella needed something to eat. We set out a bowl and he devoured it. Quickly. Purring loudly between giant gulps. And thus he came to be known as Fast Eddie. He and Peanu...
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More Fits Than Starts: July 2010
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More Fits Than Starts. Friday, July 9, 2010. Sacrifice: The "King James" Version. Last night’s LeBron James media spectacle was fascinating on so many levels. Loyalty vs. Opportunism. Make by staying in Cleveland. In fact, Jackson went so far as to say that he made sure to watch the ESPN special with his kids so they could see the sacrifice and class of this great athlete. What kind of sacrifice are we talking about here? Is it really the greater good? In a recent issue of the New Yorker, Nancy Franklin ...
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More Fits Than Starts: December 2008
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More Fits Than Starts. Thursday, December 18, 2008. A Time To Give. Hi everybody. It’s been a long time. How have you been? We’ve been swamped by kids and school. And I’ve suffered from a serious lack of initiative or inspiration (a little bit of both, I imagine) to keep up with my writing here. But my friend Beth has both of those things in spades. And it’s rubbed off on me just a little during this holiday season. I’m hoping a little might rub off on you as well. Here’s the deal…. As you can read HERE.
