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Exploring Your Debris Field

by Caleb on September 20, 2011

Vedran Smailović, the Cellist of Sarajevo

I’m still decompressing from Story. Besides for having my priorities completely taken apart during the first session, the last session with author Ian Cron is sticking with me.

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For Etsy: Alternate Childhood Dimensions

July 23, 2011

As most parents do, I can’t help but compare my son’s childhood to my own, and I’m finding that mine is coming up lacking in many ways. Miles is growing up in Chicago, a huge metropolitan city with a vast array of activities for him to do; I grew up in a small Oklahoma town [...]

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The Water Between Your Toes

July 16, 2011

It’s Friday afternoon, 5 o’clock, and the end of a very long couple of weeks. For various personal and professional reasons, the last few weeks have seen me tabling many of the things that are most important to me, including spending quality time with my family, and writing here. But now that intensity has calmed, [...]

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Louis C.K. On Being a Father

June 22, 2011

Last week’s post about being a good father, and the great follow up comments, have really got me thinking. And then Dave sent me this great Louis C.K. video. Definitely going to have to write a follow up post this week. How was your Father’s Day? [via Devour]

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Fathers Are Not Good People

June 13, 2011

A certain pending holiday has me thinking somewhat philosophically about what it means to be a dad. In many ways it is just a title. Father’s are (forgive me) born every day. Their level of activity, good or bad, in their children’s lives has nothing to do with that title. They are fathers whether they [...]

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For Etsy: Can Good Taste Be Passed On to Your Kids?

May 21, 2011

This week I wrote a post for the good folks at Etsy for their blog. A preview for your reading pleasure is below. Let me start by coming clean: I have absolutely no answer to this question. And in the big picture – taking into consideration things like getting a good education, having a happy [...]

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Reflections on Two Years of Fatherhood

March 29, 2011

I never started out to write a “dad blog.” Having a son was the original reason I started writing here, but I never expected how much Miles would dominate our lives, much less my writing. But the truth is that having a child is a life-changing event, and our lives have accordingly changed to become [...]

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Adult Time

February 21, 2011

As you may have noticed, I’ve fallen off the blogging bandwagon this weekend. Miles has been sick with an ear infection the past week, and it kind of came to a head this weekend, resulting in a situation that demanded both of our attentions. I’ll spare you the disgusting parenting details, but needless to say, [...]

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The Oxygen Mask Principle

January 26, 2011

To be a parent is to know your limits – physically, mentally, emotionally. You work for eight (or more) hours, and come home to your kids. And those kids expect you to be more than someone who just worked for eight hours. They want to talk to you, to play with you. They also want [...]

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A Day in the Life: Mornings

January 19, 2011

Sometime before the sun rises, my wife wakes me up before she’s out the door. Because she has such a long morning commute, it’s up to me to take care of the little guy. It’s at this point that my brain gears start firing, but I think it happens for me slower than most. I [...]

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