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Fall is Here?

According to the calendar, it is fall.  According to store displays, it’s just about Christmas.  According to what people are wearing, it’s still the middle of summer, at least here in San Diego.  Global climate change deniers, sorry, but it

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FIRETRUCK!!

Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod!  It’s huge!  Much bigger than I thought.  Bigger than the one at preschool.  I think it’s bigger than a table, even. Can I open this panel?  I really really really want to open it.  With that handle

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Climbing, aka Not Falling

It took me many years to realize my fear of heights is much more about seeing someone else fall than falling myself.  Yes, I can hear the braying laughter of my family already, but it’s true.  Maybe it’s popularity of

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On Writing a Blog

One of the benefits of steady writing is the chance to inadvertently spit out a gem among all the chaff.  A gem would not be the previous sentence where I mixed metaphors and generally muddled the point.  Here’s what I

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Music That Makes My Son Cry

Surely there’s some music in your life that you hold in reserve, something that drills through the layers of carapace and emotional ossification and gets to your heart.  When you allow yourself to hear this music it unlocks a pure

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Tooth, Lost

What’s so great about losing a tooth?  Is it the distinctive feel of a gap in your smile, a place through which your tongue can wriggle like a worm through pebbles?  Maybe it’s the clear transition from little-kid status to

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Being Away From Your Child

Now I know how the border collie feels, standing in the field with the grass tickling its belly, knowing a sheep has escaped over the hill and beyond the copse of trees.  I know how the eagle feels the first

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Too Big to Understand

I’ve been thinking about issues of scale recently.  I am working on a 10-story office building at work and when you’ve looked at lines on paper for a long time you forget about the massive scale of the real building. 

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Ground Bound

When you’re half the height of an adult human you live in a completely different stratum.  Instead of teetering around on stilt legs you scuttle around near the ground like a millipede.  Falling down is no problem—you can practically bounce

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The Day a Firetruck Came to Our House and Other Fine Adventures

You have no idea what an exciting world we live in.  Really, you don’t.  Maybe your synapses are scorched, your eyes filmed over, your heart ossified, but there are everyday things around us that are REALLY AMAZING. I took Number

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