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  • Embrace your surprises

    Embrace your surprises

    My dad lived to be 88 years old. During the decades I knew him he would occasionally say something to me that I never really understood until I had kids. And that was simply this: “I’m an amateur at this too.” He was so right. We’re all amateurs no matter how many kids we have

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  • Every once in a while we hear the old refrain of someone being tired of hearing nothing but bad news.  And they’re right – lately there has been a lot of horrible economic news. Well, I am going to change the bad news cycle, at least for today, with this column.  Today, in order to

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  • Are you as crazy as we think you are?

    Yann Martel, in Life of Pi says, “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.” If that’s the truth, then we’re all just a bit crazy, some of us obviously more so than others.  The next question then is, How crazy are you? Luckily, I’m good at

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