From Always Home and Uncool
July 19, 2011 at 9:10 am
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From Always Home and Uncool
July 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for putting up with me this week. It’s gotten better, including two new freelance writing assignments to fill the time and bank account while My Love pounds the pavement ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
July 12, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Good news today – no disasters, thefts or near poisonings. Murphy even got a paws up from the doggie dermatologist. Let’s celebrate, doggie style, with another giveaway of ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
July 11, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I don’t delude myself. I know most of you come here for a grin and giggle, not to be impressed by: my profound insights (you’re smiling already, yes?), my clever turn ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
July 5, 2011 at 12:01 am
Our city’s afterschool program holds a year-end event to celebrate the children, raise funds and give thanks for another 9 months without one of its supervisors being carted ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 30, 2011 at 3:01 am
I have only one thing to say to about this photo I took in my local supermarket: Rose Marie Gallace, you are a not the brightest bulb in the marquee. Thank you, VeriFone. ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 27, 2011 at 10:36 am
SEATTLE – As a non-runner, my main job on charity race days is usually one of logistics. This is a polite way of saying I lug supplies and pick up trash. This year, I ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 23, 2011 at 8:30 am
She hastens down the aisle to Vivaldi. Joins in the chorus of voices singing In My Life and Lean on Me, her eyes and head swiveling with impatience. Her name is called. She stands ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 20, 2011 at 8:30 am
As if the Uncool world were not upside down enough, what with the Autoimmune Wonder Twins and all … My Love is “between jobs.” Since March. Panic. Despair! Holy guacamole, ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 16, 2011 at 12:01 am
Looking for a last-minute Father's Day gift for a dad who has an iPhone4 and a thirst for life? No? Want to watch me drink a lot of beer while attempting to give a coherent ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 14, 2011 at 1:01 am
Thing 2’s Little League team started the season 0-8 this spring and the only bright side of that is that I’m not to blame. You can look it up. My name is nowhere on the official ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
June 8, 2011 at 12:01 am
Remember your parents always complaining about how the music you listened to wasn’t as good as the stuff they did the boogaloo to when they were kids? Well, guess what? Now ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 31, 2011 at 12:01 am
Sorry, I meant win The Hustler, the Paul Newman/Jackie Gleason classic about pool sharks (that’s billiards, not swimming predators). Click over to my DadCentric post from Friday ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 26, 2011 at 12:01 am
They say dogs tend to look like their owners. You do. Well, maybe it’s vice versa. In either case, Murphy, Murph, the Murphinator, Murphilicious, sometimes Murpy or just ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
The morning coffee barely starts to drip into the pot when I start drugging my daughter. Two pinks. One white. “Do I need to take my regular medicine, too,” she asks. “I ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 19, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Under the "STORE CLOSING" sign rested a stack of books with hemorrhage-red covers bearing the title "Too Big to Fail." The irony had to force a smile. When ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 12, 2011 at 12:43 am
I am back home, but I am still waiting. Waiting on doctors. Waiting on home healthcare services. Waiting on insurance companies. They are trying to get on the same page so the ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 12, 2011 at 12:38 am
I am back home, but I am still waiting. Waiting on doctors. Waiting on home healthcare services. Waiting on insurance companies. They are trying to get on the same page so the ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 9, 2011 at 8:01 am
CHICAGO – I'm at the children's hospital, waiting on a diagnosis. If that sends a sinking feeling through your chest, know that it has done the same to me a few hundred times ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 5, 2011 at 8:01 am
Your mother may not be the first caretaker you met upon entering this world, but let’s face facts -- her bedside manner far exceeded that of the doctor who yanked you from between ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
May 3, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Every Wednesday night at 8 o’clock, the Uncool Family huddles together in front of our wondrous 46-inch flatscreen to watch our favorite family show, The Middle. While My ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
April 25, 2011 at 12:01 am
If Mark Twain had lived in my southern Connecticut ‘burb instead of up in our state capital of Hartford, he might have complained that everybody talks about the traffic, but ... (
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From Always Home and Uncool
April 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
Baseball is as much a game of history as it is of skill. That's why I'm putting Thing 2’s recently retired first mitt in our safe deposit box. Not that I think Cooperstown will ... (
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April 13, 2011 at 11:15 pm
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From Always Home and Uncool
April 11, 2011 at 12:27 pm
A bit of the magic went out of Opening Day last week when we had to place Thing 1 on the disabled list. She woke at 3 a.m., crying and moaning. Fever. Headache. Pain in the pee ... (
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