Tag: kids
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Good news out of Mississippi!
“And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…
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After Hurricane Helene
We’re on the anniversary of Hurricane Helene. I posted this on an old blog a few days after and wanted to bring it here. What a year, man! Hard to be grateful for deeply painful and tragic things, but the second and third order effects of that day and the first weeks and two months…
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Hansel Mieth
Let me say, I don’t “understand” art in the way that enthusiasts “understand” art. I look at art and sometimes I like it. It is unsophisticated and I like it that way. I discovered Hansel Mieth’s photography yesterday and I pretty instantly liked it.
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”
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Camping as a useful measuring stick of parenting
For the past two years, we’ve gone camping about five times. Five isn’t a big number but it’s certainly relative. Packing for five (there’s that number) people in the family, kids 5 to .83 years old, is a lot. Getting there and unpacking once we’re home are hard, but it’s incredibly worth it for core-memory…
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Shepherd: setting sail on his bike!
Shepherd’s first known solo bike ride! What day! O joy!
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To Sadie, on Your 30th Birthday
I can remember, and feel, what it was like to fall in love with you. Summer of 2016. The string of numbers representing a year has never meant as much to me as those do. The year I was born is the only other string that meant anything to me at that point, but all…
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To Paul: On having a second kid
You called me yesterday and asked: What would you say to me that would help me prepare for kid #2? I think you used the word wisdom: What wisdom do you have to share with me? Bonus question was: What did you do to help Sadie in preparation for kid #2 Here are my thoughts…
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Shepherd graduates from pre-school
Four years of ‘school’ at Black Mountain Presbyterian weekday school has come to a close for Shepherd. Our oldest kid has given us one of our first big milestones as parents. Sadie said it best on the playground at the after-graduation picnic: He’s going out into the world! Year 1 Shepherd, when you started at…