From Always Home and Uncool
March 12, 2010 at 1:01 am
Just before that first time we reached the mountain, we drove past two cemeteries. That's some potentially heavy-handed foreshadowing when your family has just decided to take ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
March 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
Remember how hard I was working this year to yell less at my kids? I blew it all last night. It felt good and I won’t apologize about it. The day started so promising. Ran ... (
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March 8, 2010 at 1:01 am
My Love has been trying to persuade me to take up jogging since shortly after we first met which, I feel compelled to point out, was at a keg party. In those days, she’d arise
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From Always Home and Uncool
March 4, 2010 at 1:01 am
At eye level, just to the right of the rear entrance to the coffee shop, someone had plastered a clear sticker with a single word on it. optimism Every few days when I’d stop ... (
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March 2, 2010 at 1:02 am
When my best friend from college had her first baby a few months ago, My Love squealed in giddy delight. “If you ever need any advice, call me!” she chirped like an over-caffeinated
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February 28, 2010 at 1:01 am
This “Do Me a Solid Sunday” happens to be Rare Disease Day. A rare disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 people. In the United States, more than 6,000 diseases meet
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February 26, 2010 at 1:01 am
For more than 24 hours, I kept my morbid curiosity at bay. Had I seen her on New Year’s Day 2009? Was she one of them? Doesn’t matter. Don’t look. You have projects.
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 24, 2010 at 1:02 am
A dozen things about my trip to Texas last week. 1. The annual Cure JM Foundation National Fundraiser and Educational in Austin was success. We had 200+ JM kids, parents, friends ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 19, 2010 at 1:01 am
Our final guest in this week’s series, “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home,” is the dynamic darling of the Great Plains, the acronymish FADKOG of For a Different Kind ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 17, 2010 at 1:01 am
Today’s guest in this week’s “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home” series is the mysterious man from the north, Homemaker Man. He writes the fresh guffaw-fest Musings ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 15, 2010 at 1:01 am
The first guest in this week’s “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home” series is the woman who will tickle you with more than just her mustache. She is writer/comedian/California-girl-and-three-quarters ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 12, 2010 at 1:01 am
This is an expanded, unexpurgated version of my biweekly column for the local newspaper. As a loyal AHAU reader you get bonus links, video, photos and other bits from the cutting ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
The automated messaging system called to let us know that schools would be closed today because of the impending blizzard. That call came at 7 o’clock. Last night. The Things, ... (
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February 8, 2010 at 1:01 am
Even with my fuzzy vision, I could see that my optometrist had made a mistake. The prescription for the contact lenses he gave me was actually weaker instead of stronger. He
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 4, 2010 at 12:03 am
As you can imagine based on Monday’s post, it’s been a whirlwind week of projects here at Uncool Estates. Most should be done by Thursday but they would have been done by today ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
February 1, 2010 at 1:04 am
The following items broke or otherwise shed their inanimate coils in the past seven days: Makita Cordless Drill. I’m not sure what about this death hurt more: That it thwarted ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 29, 2010 at 1:01 am
One week ago: Yesterday: Can you figure it out? (If you need a hint, read "Milestones".) Have an equally great weekend, everyone. + + + You can support our ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 26, 2010 at 1:01 am
Even in my athletic heyday as a teen (multiple baseball teams, singles tennis, pickup basketball) and my resurgence in my mid-20s to early-30s (multiple softball teams, doubles ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 22, 2010 at 1:44 am
My Love just returned from the annual company physical (perk of being a Globetrotting Executive Goddess), and the news is good. Even though I – he of imagined heart attacks ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 20, 2010 at 1:01 am
Remember my strategy for dealing with scofflaw drivers along the route The Things’ walk to school? You don’t? Click that link above and read. Too lazy to do that? OK, a hint ... (
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January 18, 2010 at 1:01 am
Law & Order: Parking Violations Bureau The Biggest Loser: Talk-Show Host Edition The Weakest Link Knight Rider III: Kit Goes Hybrid Law & Order: Lost
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 15, 2010 at 11:37 am
The first carcass appeared the day after New Year's in my neighbor's front yard. The next morning, a second victim lay smack in the northbound lane of street outside my neighborhood. ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 13, 2010 at 1:01 am
Thing 1 and I have returned from Chicago where we saw her Juvenile Myositis specialist without drama. We’ll reserve that for when the blood tests come back next week and we learn ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
Anissa Mayhew and I first bonded over pediatric disease. No, not the malady of raising children though that should be considered for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
January 7, 2010 at 3:13 pm
If you walk away from this blog having learned only one thing about me, it should be this: I’m far from a perfect father. I mean, I’m not the worst dad out there. Still. ... (
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