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This Week in Le Quarantine
… I commissioned a portrait from a really talented local artist. I couldn’t have been happier with the final painting. I found a new way to fancy up my workhorse white-cotton shirt. This simple detail with the scarf caused someone to ask me on a video call why I was so dressed up. It’s just…
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Life in the times … 4/9 – 4/19
I have lost a little bit of my drive in these past few days. I am not unhappy or depressed, but it’s a weird feeling to have such little control over things that I like to do. This is how kids must feel like all the time I suppose. Asha started remote school this past…
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Essay: Someone on Malibu Drive
My dad called me yesterday while I was outside in our yard with the kids. Sitting on a sunny patch on the front stoop, I answered the call with a, “hi dad.” To which he responded with a loud and crackly, “there is [crackle crackle] mail [crackle] can’t read sender [crackle] … [fizzz].” No greetings.…
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Life in the times … 3/27 – 4/8
Life feels like a vacation. In a hotel with no room service. Where the TV only plays loud kid shows. At a place where clearly the guidebook exaggerated a lot of things. But you know, it’s still a vacation. I hear people saying they can’t wait till things go back to normal, me being one…
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Chicago on my mind … again
Back in August of 2008 (when I was 26-years-old), I wrote a post on here titled Chicago on my mind. It was short and sweet and this is what it said: I can’t decide whether I am caught up in the moment, or whether I’m actually having a revelation. After spending a weekend in Chicago,…
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Cardboard Box Guessing Game
The humble cardboard box; never the star of the show, but always the one that kids end up reaching for in the end. I mean, did we even need to spend the money on that fancy toy inside? Social distancing has certainly piled up the number of boxes in my home as I order more…
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