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My Rockwellian Day

Monday, July 19, 2010

I sit on the couch with my daughter, teaching her to crack peanuts with her fingernails
her hair still wet from the dip in the pool on this 95-degree Sunday.
Joe Castiglione calls balls and strikes on the radio.
1-0 for the good guys.
My son and wife are in the kitchen, cooking cupcakes from a recipe in the [...]

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The Opposite of Surplus

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

In his amazing book Squandering Aimlessly, David Brancaccio travels around the world to see what people do with their money when they have a surplus.
Now, on the surface, I wouldn’t be the best audience for this book. I’m so far on the opposite side of “surplus” that I have a surminus. But until someone writes a book [...]

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Introducing 300 Words

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

As if I needed another project in my life.
But this one is designed to make me — and you — better at other projects. It’s called “300 Words,” and the idea is to put a little peer pressure on writers to be accountable for doing what they should be doing every day. Which is write.
Technically, [...]

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