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Dad. Daughter. Conversation.
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Continue reading →: Dad. Daughter. Conversation.I’ll point out to her the interesting things that are said on the radio. Something about missile systems and Ukraine. She’ll offer some polite expression of recognition. “Yeah.” “Uh-huh.” “Really” (not as a question, ‘Really?’, more the affirmation, “Really!”), “I know.” I give her credit; she varies her responses, mistakenly…
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Continue reading →: you can thank meThere’s an expression I like to use. “You can thank me. With any luck, that will be the most boring conversation you’ll have today.” (Sometimes I’ll add, “And look, it’s only 9:00 am.”) I just had a chance to use it yesterday. I spoke to one of my wife’s colleagues…
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Continue reading →: the wireRegrettably, it’s dead because I haven’t been using it. Which means I haven’t been reading lately. My Kindle has sat neglected in my briefcase. Of course, the battery died.
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Continue reading →: can’t sleepOccasionally, I find myself awake in the middle of the night, unable to fall back asleep. (I wonder if there was ever a time in human history when this wasn’t a common refrain. How about Lucy, the three million-year-old cavewoman; what was her sleep hygiene like? She looks well rested.)
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My COVID-19 Diary: Are we nicer?
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Are we nicer?Several articles discuss the limits of empathy. Just because we can put ourselves in the shoes of another person doesn’t necessarily mean we will be motivated to do anything about the challenges they face. If, while driving my car, I feel for a person alongside the entrance to the Lincoln…
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My COVID-19 Diary: In the Storm
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: In the StormAs I looked at that water, I thought to myself, “Oh my goodness, poor Mark. What’s he going to do.” There was a moment when I thought to myself, “I guess they can all move in with us for a while until they get this fixed. We can get cots…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: A hard row to hoe
I’ve had a lifelong fascination with twisted idioms. Idioms get twisted as people repeat a common expression based upon what they heard, rather than seeing it written down.
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Continue reading →: My COVID Diary: The right amount of HopeI got that feeling of optimism that you get every year on this day when it seems that winter might actually one day come to an end. But, this year it was different, I also began to feel that maybe the pandemic, along with its many restrictions on our lives,…
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Continue reading →: About a hero: Donald F. Gately Sr.Donald Gately Sr. had an intimate understanding of human frailty and vulnerability. When you had an armload of problems and challenges of your own making, my dad was the person to whom you brought them. He recognized the essential truth that even the best among us often forget, we are…
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Continue reading →: My COVID-19 Diary: Things I never thought I’d doLike skydiving, I might’ve said, “I’m not doing that.” But, like skydiving, I’m doing that. So, yeah, you’re doing that.
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