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When The End Gathers Its Things and Visits Someone We Love
Well, it’s been a while.
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In Which We Buy a Bookstore
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How Do You Measure a Marriage?
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A Post About When We Found Ourselves As a Family
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In Which We Consider Buying a Bookstore
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How Do You Measure a Marriage?
Some thoughts on our 25th anniversary
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Our Nineteen Year Tradition
And the passing of time
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On a Warm, Summer Night, We Lost Our Dog
On losing things that matter, and finding them again
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"Dad, Is It Ever Discouraging?"
On work that has gone fallow, and being a small part of a large design
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On Telling the Truth
And the power of talking about our fears
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A Summer Evening With My Dad
I drive my 14-year-old son to a youth event and then instead of driving all the way home I figure I’ll stop by my parents’ house to see my dad.
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These Sand Castles We Build
On Waves and Sand and Children Growing Up
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What Looks Like Destruction
What Looks Like Diminishing Might Be Part of a Whole and Healthy Life
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The Joy (Terror) of Teaching a Child to Drive
And the importance of exercising our trust
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The Courage to Live It
The Courage to Live It
"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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